The Newsletter 63 Spring 2013

Redefining the Hong Kong typology

Elsa Snyder

The concept of the global city is taken to extremes in Hong Kong. In many ways the city epitomizes the definition of what one might consider a truly global city in the contemporary context. Despite the highly global nature of Hong Kong, there remains a strong sense of the local that provides contrast and friction to some of these globalizing forces.

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