Furthermore, the city is near the sea which allows the travellers, mostly european, to take the boat or the Chunnel and then ride downtown with the train or the underground, which is the most used way of travelling in the city. In total, over 100.000 flights transit by those airports per month.
Well, the Frog possess five international airports : Gatwick, Luton, London City Airport, Stansted and Heathrow. We could think that because of its geographic situation (england is an island) the accessibility is not so good. However, in order to welcome all the people that are willing to visit London, the city must be really accessible. Indeed, the home of Big Ben is flourishing from iconic monuments, known places, typical food, music, ect… Its musical repertory is vast, the city inspired many singers and musicians like the Sex Pistols or The Clash. London was, according to CNN the third most visited city in the world in 2018, with almost 20M visitors per year. Almost all of them are free and give a full and easy access to culture. Visitors can also discover the London history by visiting the 240 museums and galleries as the British Museum, the Natural History museum, the National Gallery or the Tate Britain. The city was created in the Antiquity so it contains a considerable history that tourists can delight for exemple, in architecture they can admire the St Paul’s Cathedral, built after the huge 1666 fire and located in the historic heart of the City. In order to understand better the concept of global cities and what defines such cities, we will study the case of the first global city in the world : London. Saskia Sassen who invented the concept of a “global cities” defines it as, in short, “an important point of financial and particular services production that is necessary for the future”. These exchanges are carried out in a few cities commonly called “global cities”. They exchange knowledge, trade with each other, work together in order to create tomorrow’s world. Nowadays, people are more and more connected thanks to globalization.
Metropolisation means the concentration of the most qualified population and activities in the largest cities. Globalisation encourages the process of metropolisation.
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