A new Paris?

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/arts/design/17paris.html?_r=1&ref=design

Do Not Believe Reports of Dubai’s Demise

http://www.newamerica.net/publications/articles/2009/do_not_believe_reports_dubai_s_demise_11721

Seoul Strives for Global City Status

http://migrantsinkorea.net/?mid=en_topheadline&document_srl=66162&listStyle=

Re-designing Paris: Signature Architects

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/mar/12/redesigning-paris-france-architecture

Mayors Panel of Global City 2009

http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/UAE/241479

Global Seoul Forum This Week

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/03/09/200903090013.asp

New research: fifth Global Financial Centres Index (Corporation of London)

New research: fifth Global Financial Centres Index

http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/media_centre/files2009/New+research+-+fifth+Global+Financial+Centres+Index.htm

Tuesday's CUT Seminar

Centre for Urban Theory Seminar

Tuesday 4pm, 10 March

Location: ZOOLOGY MUSEUM (Ground Floor, Wallace Building)

Christian De Cock (Swansea University) “Cities in Fiction: Perambulations with John Berger”

ALL WELCOME

Dr Richard G. Smith
Swansea University
http://www.swan.ac.uk/staff/academic/EnvironmentSociety/Geography/smithrichardg/Global Cities Now? UGRG Annual Conference (Royal Geographical Society) / CUT Event (Swansea University, November 2009), Call For Papers: http://www.urban-geography.org.uk/

Shanghai rising ...

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/travel/asia/1459038,CST-FTR-shanghai0304.article

New York and London "remain only two truly global centres"

http://www.thelondondailynews.com/york-london-remain-only-truly-global-centres-p-2476.html

Financial Crisis: Will Global Cities Survive?

http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20090304p2a00m0na003000c.html

Mahindra World City

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Economy/SBI-Mahindra-World-City-in-tie-up-for-Jaipur-hub/articleshow/4206307.cms