After first having heard the term last quarter, I’m seeing it pop up all over the place. It’s amazing how trends (sorry: scholarly schools of thought) can be very well developed, but until someone points them out to you, they may as well be invisible. I guess it’s a further argument for making sure one stays abreast of the current literature.

Anyway, I was reading a book catalogue at work and started thinking about the China project and global cities. Is there something about a successful global city’s information structure that seperates it from a successful non-global city? How does an info-structure (I just made that word up–it’s probably a well developed school of thought. Although google only returns 405,000 results….so DIBS!) contribute to the success of a city?