WHAT MAKES TOKYO A GLOBAL CITY ?
Key questions
How to define the concept of global city by the case of TOKYO ?
What are the activities that make TOKYO a major world impulse center?
How is the city of TOKYO developed, how does it energize an entire region ?
What are the limits, the challenges for TOKYO, a global city?
Final task
To answer the key questions above, you will have to make a video about TOKYO as a global city showing its strengths & features and challenges & limits.
Instructions
1. Your page must present examples about each feature of a global city (previous page about Global cities)
2. You have to use a specific geographic vocabulary (global, globalization, on a global scale, on a regional scale, area, CBD, urban network, megalopolis, skyscraper, skyline, headquarters, Transnational Corporation TNC, hub, commuting, congestion, brain drain, highly-skilled workers, migrants, urban planning, gentrification, inner city, outer city, suburbs, transportation network, tourism industry)
3.Choose relevants pictures, max 5/6 and comment on them.
4. Dead line November 2sd / group work of 4 students
Useful resources
1. Websites which can be used
- Tokyo, Japan, original mega cities (datas about population, statistics and rankings, including also a Tokyo map)
http://globalsherpa.org/japan/tokyo-japan/
- Rethinking global cities, basic datas and a link to the official olympic website
https://sites.duke.edu/rethinkingglobalcities/tokyo/
- Tokyo as a global city region. A slide show showing different aspects of Tokyo as global city and its influence
https://fr.slideshare.net/mohddanish18/tokyo-as-a-global-city-region
- Tokyo is the world's largest greatest city: 50 reasons why... From CNN travel
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/tokyo-worlds-greatest-city-reasons/index.html
2. Tokyo: Earth's Model MEGACITY