What characterizes a Global City? In this episode of ON CITIES, host Carie Penabad speaks with leading sociologist Alejandro Portes on his recent, groundbreaking book: Emerging Global Cities: Origins, Structure and Significance (co-authored with Ariel Armony). Portes discusses the unexpected rise of Dubai, Miami and Singapore, and how these three cities have achieved newfound global prominence through parallel trends. The conversation will elaborate on the factors that allow certain urban environments to become emerging centers of commerce, finance, art and culture for entire regions. At the same time, Portes will highlight the importance of migration and climate change to the prospects of these emerging global cities, illustrating how the economic system that propelled their rise may imperil their future. Tune in Friday, February 10 at 11:00 AM EST on the Voice American Variety network.   Alejandro Portes is a distinguished Cuban American sociologist. Educated at the University of Havana, Catholic University of Argentina and Creighton University, Portes received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has led a prominent career in academia, serving as the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology at Princeton University; the John Dewey Chair in Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University; and most recently he serves as the Emilio Bacardi distinguished professor at the University of Miami.   His research focuses on immigration, urbanization and the numerous factors affecting the fates of immigrants and their children. He has published over 30 books and special issues including: City on the Edge- the Transformation of Miami with Alex Stepick (California 1993), Immigrant America: A Portrait (in its fourth edition); The Global Edge: Miami in the Twenty-First Century, with Ariel Armony (University of California Press, 2018), Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation with Rubén G. Rumbaut (University of California Press, 2001) and most recently Emerging Global Cities: Origin, Structure, and Significance with Ariel Armony (Columbia University Press, 2022). Portes is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2019, he was awarded the Princess of Asturias award which is the highest form of recognition bestowed by the Spanish Crown and one of the most important prizes conferred in the European Union.

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