For over a century, the social relations of the metropolis have been linked analytically to capitalist circulation, a link that is still clearly audible in the term global city. This applies both in the narrow, deterministic sense that would privilege the mechanisms of techno-economic globalization and in the broader, more inclusive sense that would assign to social and cultural processes a semistructural role in shaping the pulsations and interchanges of economic life.
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