Cosmopolitics and the maritime world city

Cosmopolitanism has emerged as a humanistic perspective to express globaliz ing societal experiences. What are its geographies! World cities are center s of globalizing processes, and their populations and institutions may shar e elements of cosmopolitical worldviews. Most world cities have also been p orts, yet in the contemporary global imaginary, many world cities are not r eadily understood as places of maritime activity, historic or contemporary. Disjunctures in perceptions of the coastal city-region reflect changes in the world economy and human experiences in modes of travel. This analysis r ecovers geographical processes of maritime urban areas as a basis for under standing transhistorical and geographical factors of cosmopolitics in globa lizing regions and contemporary intellectual thought.