ABOUT US
NEWS-
Lecture
Global Cities in a World Economy
Speaker:
Prof. Ben Derudder
2022 Ministry of Science and Technology High-end Foreign Experts Introduction Plan
Host:
Prof. CAO Zhan
Professor Ben Derudder is a tenured professor at the Faculty of Public Administration of the University of Leuven in Belgium, director of the Institute of Urban Studies of the University of Leuven, deputy director of the Globalization and World Urban Studies Network (GawC), and visiting professor at the Universities of Ghent and Toruń. He has long been a leading expert in the field of globalization, global cities, world city networks, and multi-center city development, and enjoys a high academic reputation. Professor Ben Derudder has led the theoretical construction and empirical research of the World City Network and the global city, presided over more than 20 scientific research funds at different levels of the United Nations, the European Union, the World Bank, and Flemish, and has published more than 200 related papers and 7 books, with a total of more than 15,000 citations (the field of Web of Science ranks among the top 1% in the world).
Time: October 21, 2022 (Friday), 19：00–20：30
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Brief Introduction
In this lecture , Prof. Ben Derudder will examine the emergence of global cities as a new economic and social formation since the 1980s. Drawing on the work of Saskia Sassen , and setting the scene for the next lecture which wil feature the GaWC research on the global connectivity of cities , global cities are defined as sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance , information and peope . Attention is given to the processes underlying global city - formation , how these have been spreading from New York , London , and Tokyo to other cities , and the socio - spatial consequences of this evolution .
