Cities and countries and oceans in-between
“The most important place to London is New York and to New York is London and Tokyo. London belongs to a country composed of itself and New York.”
– BBC News: Are cities the new countries? (14.07.06)
“The new global elite, operating in cities like New York, London and Chicago, avoids the urban political realm. It wants to operate in the city but not rule it; it composes a regime of power without responsibility…The reason for this change is that the global economy is not rooted in the city in the sense of depending on control of the city as a whole. It is instead an island economy, literally so within the island of Manhattan in New York, architecturally so in places like Canary Wharf in London, which resemble the imperial compounds of an earlier era.”
– Le Monde Diplomatique: A Flexible City of Strangers (16.02.01)