4 Flashcards
Globalization
The growing tendency for economy, political and cultural exchanges to take place at a world scale.
Flows are evidence of??
Interaction
Types of flows
People Money Food Water Energy Natural Resources
How are flows different today?
More diversity in a more complex, network-based organization
Increase in volume and number
Origins and destinations have changed, with a more international emphasis
Cities are more shaped by response to flows (reactive, proactive, resistant or embracing)
Consumer Products and Services (5)
Intermediate Goods
People
Finance
Information and Ideas
“Nasty Flows”
“Nasty” Flows
Pathogens, illicit drugs, weapons, crime, pollution favour urban locations
Intermediate goods
raw and built material for consumer products
People (flows)
Immigration transforms places, ethnoburbs
As cities are not replenishing their own populations, immigration can be important.
Finance
Deregulation underpins economic globalization
Information and Ideas
contribute to more service, cultural and multi-media production in cities
Effects of Flow and Growth
Growth generates social costs at a high rate
General inequality in Canadian cities (rising rents and property values)
Understanding impact of global flows requires
knowing:
• How diverse flows come together in different
combinations
• How they interact uniquely with particular localities
Importance of “reasserting the local “
Local or regional distinctiveness is important
despite increased global flows
Note: the term “local” can change as spatial scales are
not static
Note: the term “local” can change as ____________
spatial scales are not static.
Limits of globalization
Globalization has limits in times of economic
recession, climate change, and uncertainty
surrounding the carbon-based economy
