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Analytic Border-Lands: Economy and Culture in Global City

In this paper, the author describes the process of globalization in the mega cities. Defining a city is basically hard work, changing the criteria from state to state. Nevertheless, the UN is trying to be firm considering a global city is primarily a large city or a metropolis, a city of more than 10 million people, who would command functions in the political , economic, financial, technological and cultural pre-eminent at the regional, national or even international. Add to this the fact that these global cities, also called global cities or global cities, together secondary and tertiary activities, allowing the redistribution of production locally. They are also, because of their influence and wealth of attractive poles for migrants seeking work, both at local, regional or international, which plays in the marginalization of certain areas of the planet. Finally, there are places decisions in the political and economic measures, the main headquarters of MNCs are being established, including the Toyota in Tokyo, as the seats of international institutions such as the UN in New York, and the major stock exchanges including Wall Street in New York, the world premiere.

Three major conurbations called megacities are distinguished by their size and complexity: the U.S. Megalopolis, the European megalopolis and the Japanese megalopolis. The U.S. Megalopolis, the first observed, extends from Boston to Washington and includes the major seats of international political leadership including the UN, IMF and World Bank, not including the headquarters of FMN and Wall Street. Connected to an extensive transportation network and the rest of the North American Atlantic coast, it provides an interface for redistribution to the hinterland.

Global cities coordinate strategies and activities to support a sustainable and socially just, whose first step was given at a conference in Beijing, attended by former presidents, ministers, local authorities, community leaders and others from around the world .

Often when we talk about cultural industries in our country, there is a pre-conception about what they represent these industries, their modes of operation and the social effects they have on our daily lives.

There are positions against positions in favor and other annoying positions complacent. Often the debate on cultural industries is transferred to ideological positions about art, identity, heritage and popular, that limit the general understanding of this system by introducing different elements of analysis for a new theory of culture through study of current globalization processes and new forms of representation and social fabric configuration.

In the theory of cultural industries, we can find at least 4 times when the cultural creativity and become important for the study of the social. The first has its origin in contemporary Marxism posed by theorists of the Frankfurt School. In the study of capitalism Marx, Benjamin recognizes a theoretical deficiency from the area of culture to understand the new social processes. Somehow, in historical criticism posed a social evolution from the proto-capitalism to a classless society, the question of the cultural apparatus invisible to new ...