Editing Global city (section)

==Origin and terminology==
The term 'global city' was popularized by [[sociologist]] [[Saskia Sassen]] in her 1991 book, ''The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo''.<ref>Sassen, Saskia. ''[http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/6943.html The Global City: New York, London, Tokyo]''. 1991. [[Princeton University Press]]. {{ISBN|0-691-07063-6}}. {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150316103717/http://pup.princeton.edu/titles/6943.html|date=16 March 2015}}.</ref> Before then, other terms were used for urban centers with roughly the same features. The term 'world city', meaning a city heavily involved in global trade, appeared in a May 1886 description of [[Liverpool]], by ''[[The Illustrated London News]]'';<ref>{{cite web |date=18 December 2009 |title=The Empire in One City? Liverpool's Inconvenient Imperial Past |url=http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/737 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623124607/http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/737 |archive-date=23 June 2012 |access-date=9 May 2012 |publisher=Reviews in History |first1=John |last1=Belchem }}</ref> British sociologist and [[geographer]] [[Patrick Geddes]] used the term in 1915.<ref name="Doel and Hubbard">Doel, M., & Hubbard, P., (2002), "Taking World Cities Literally: Marketing the City in a Global Space of flows", ''City'', vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 351–368. Subscription required.</ref> The term '[[megacity]]' entered common use in the late 19th or early 20th century, the earliest known example being a publication by the [[University of Texas]] in 1904.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-1ALAAAAYAAJ&q=megacity |title=Hemisfile: Perspectives on Political and Economic Trends in the Americas |date=1994 |publisher=Institute of the Americas |language=en}}</ref> In the 21st century, the terms are usually focused on a city's [[financial center|financial power]] and [[high-technology|high technology]] infrastructure.<ref>{{cite news |date=15 February 2015 |title=Asian Cities Pay Hidden Price for Global Status |work=The Diplomat |url=https://thediplomat.com/2015/02/asian-cities-pay-hidden-price-for-global-status/ |url-status=live |access-date=25 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160201130228/https://thediplomat.com/2015/02/asian-cities-pay-hidden-price-for-global-status/ |archive-date=1 February 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=14 August 2014 |title=The World's Most Influential Cities |work=Forbes |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2014/08/14/the-most-influential-cities-in-the-world/#7bbf56cb7370 |url-status=live |access-date=29 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905084618/https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2014/08/14/the-most-influential-cities-in-the-world#7bbf56cb7370 |archive-date=5 September 2017}}</ref>