First released in 2008, the annual GPCI report evaluates and ranks 44 major cities according to their “magnetism,” or their overall power to attract creative individuals and enterprises from around the world. TOKYO – London, New York, and Tokyo were again named as the most comprehensively attractive cities in the Global Power City Index (GPCI) 2017 report published today by The Mori Memorial Foundation’s Institute for Urban Strategies, a research institute established by Mori Building, a leading urban developer in Tokyo. London, New York and Tokyo Remain the World’s Most Attractive CitiesĤ4 of the world’s cities ranked in The Mori Memorial Foundation’s GPCI 2017 Report Finally, the article suggests that conceptualizing the global city as a dispositif enables the important task of imagining alternative ways of framing the meaning of urbanization in world politics.0 Global Power City Index 2017: Tokyo is No.3 ranking(→), Osaka is 26th(↓), and Fukuoka is 37th(↓) in 44 cities of world Secondly, it performs a governmental analysis of global city reports and indexes. The article analyses this capacity in two contexts: Firstly, it presents a genealogy of the voyage of the global cities concept from critical academic scholarship to a buzzword of city elites and business consultants. While the global city captures the fact that power and wealth are spatially concentrated in today’s urbanizing world politics, the concept also has a world-making capacity. It treats the global city as a dispositif of power. This article forwards an alternative perspective. In International Relations, the global city is treated as a unit in a new type of international system, an increasingly important actor in world politics, or a site through which global processes operate.
The global city presents one available model for understanding urbanization and associated hierarchies of power.
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