“…It may also be observed that the city's leadership has in general been constrained by a Russian resistance toward internationaliza tion, 39 although the idea of developing St. Petersburg into a gate way, and more particularly a hub of transport in the context of the Baltic Sea, is still there and has recently yielded considerable results in the form of new ports being constructed in the city's vicinity. And the national Russian discourse's display of a variety of restraints is felt also in St. Petersburg.…”
“…It may also be observed that the city's leadership has in general been constrained by a Russian resistance toward internationaliza tion, 39 although the idea of developing St. Petersburg into a gate way, and more particularly a hub of transport in the context of the Baltic Sea, is still there and has recently yielded considerable results in the form of new ports being constructed in the city's vicinity. And the national Russian discourse's display of a variety of restraints is felt also in St. Petersburg.…”
The narratives of`world cities' or`global cities' as exceptional centres of command and control in the global economy have become powerful in contemporary geography, social studies, and even popular discourse (
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