Tel Aviv, Israel - a world city in evolution: urban development at a deadend of the global economy

Dela

关键词: settlement geography // urban geography // Israel;   

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来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Tel Aviv was mentioned as a world city for the first time by Kellerman (1993) who emphasizedthe existence of leading economic functions typical for the late 20th century city. Thispaper extends the notion of Tel Aviv as a world city in evolution, using up-to-date worldcity literature and indicators. Greater (metropolitan) Tel Aviv with 2.6 million population in2000 (Tel Aviv City had 350000) has been Israel`s primate urban agglomeration since the1920s. Since the 1990s it has evolved into a hard core of Israel`s post-industrial, globallyorientated economy, and has displayed a post-modern physical ambience and social andcultural lifestyle. Tel Aviv evolved into a global city in spite of the fact that it is located at afrontier in its own region, the Mideast, and at the cul-de-sac site relative to the mainstreamglobal economic centers with which it maintains most of its network links. In addition tocommon attributes of a world city one of the main assets of Tel Aviv is its high R&D intensiveindustry, acting as a growth pole for the local and national economies. Future researchavenues are an in-depth analysis of Tel Aviv`s social inequalities and the linkage patternsthat Tel Aviv maintains with other urban centers of world city caliber.

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