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Yet, many scholars who research the colonial city in the first age of European expansion would also draw on such categories to describe their subjects of investigation. Global city scholars identify their subjects by their character as economic giants, international gateways, political and cultural hubs, and sites of great wealth inequalities. The aim of this research network is to investigate how digging deeper into the history of the phenomenon can improve our understanding of its present-day manifestations. Widely regarded as a central concept to understanding the contemporary urban form, the idea of the global city is certainly here to stay.