Brenner and Keil

Question 1

Explain Fordism:

Answer 1

Productivity increase based on mass production technologies, reproduced throughout the older industrialized world, mainly in large-scale industrial regions

Question 2

Name three broad issues on which research was oncudcted in the 80s and 90s:

Answer 2

• Formation of a global urban hierarchy
• Contested restructuring of urban space
• Transformation of the urban social fabric

Question 3

Name the four dimensions of global interurban connectivity:

Answer 3

• Types of interurban networks: not one, but a network of multiple, interlocking urban networks
• Spatiality of interurban networks: implications of interurban connectivity on geographical space (space of places)
• Scope of interurban networks: which scales and to what extent is interurban connectivity researched?
• Dangers of interurban networks: what risks does it pose and to whom?