Small Cities and Towns Can be Global Cities. 

The Idea of a Global City.There are two well-established types of organization that operate throughout the world independent of their national affiliation: the global city and the multi-national corporation. 

Global cities, while bound physically within a nation, transcend this anchor with imagination and infrastructure. Global cities are economic development machines connected to their value-added counterparts around the world. They continue to prosper with innovations that progressively diminish the relevance of national borders and governments.