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Cities, Empires And Globalisation Flashcards

1
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Example of diffusion?

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Diffusion of idea and technologies from Mesopotamia to Nile Valley

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Example of invention?

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Maya cities in Meso-America were developed with no assistance from existing urban civilisations

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Phoenicia?

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1500-300 BC
An early world economy
The first truly regional merchant cities ruled by councils of merchant elders

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4
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Oldest inhabitants city in the world?

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Byblos since 7000 BC

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5
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Xenos?

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Foreigner
Stranger
Friend in a foreign city
Both guest and alien

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Proxenos

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Citizen who acts on behalf of all foreigners

Promoted alliance and friendship

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7
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Renaissance Florence

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1400’s

Modern international banking is born

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Dutch dominance

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17th century
Amsterdam- Wall St
Leiden- textiles

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British dominance

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London- world financial centre

Manchester- cottonopolis

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10
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The first modern empires?

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Portuguese

Discover Brazil

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11
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British empire?

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1931

Britain claimed a quarter of the global land and population

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12
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What ideologies shaped colonial cities?

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The ideology of state control- express of authority
The ideology of capitalist expansion- accumulation of wealth
The ideology of Utopianism- social experiments

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13
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What new professions rose in the nineteenth century?

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Land surveyors
Civil engineers
Architects and town planners

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Singapore?

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Stamford Raffles
The ultimate colonial government planner
1822
Ethnically segregated grid layout with best land for Europeans
Repossession of any unregistered land
Police force established on British principles

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15
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Wide streets?

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Justified by public health concerns

Actually used to control space and prevent the errection of slums

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16
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Colonial strategies for controlling space?

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Orderly segmentation on racial lines
Provide space for surveillance and observations
Distinction between inside and outside

17
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African example of colonial control?

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African compounds hidden from view by plants
Hedges between units
Natives seen as visitors

18
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Poor cities of the British empire?

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Mumbai
Kolkata
Lagos
Cape Town

19
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What was Shanghai used for?

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Access to Chinese markets
Needed for labour following the abolition of slavery
One of the biggest ports in British territory

20
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What was the cordon sanitaire?

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A green area which surrounded the most desirable part of a village exclusively for white people
Width based on the distance a mosquito could fly
Natives where not allowed to enter the district outside of daylight hours

21
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The sanitation catastrophe?

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Bubonic plague killing thousands
Spread around the empires port cities
Blamed on natives which led to further segregation
Little attention paid to the neglect of sanitation services outside of the white districts

22
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Trusteeship?

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The idea of preserving cultural heritage at the same time as pioneering path to a modern world

23
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Pioneering socialist and planner?

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Patrick Geddes

24
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Conservative surgery

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Meditating between the need for public improvement and respect for existing social standards

25
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Calcutta?

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1700’s British trading post 
‘City of palaces’ 
In C20 demand drops and trade suffers 
City declined 
‘City of dreadful night’
26
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Impacts of empire cities in Britain?

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London’s banks thrived
Architectural ideas used overseas brought back home- eg the introduction of the Bungalow from India
Immigration from colonies

27
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London and immigration stat

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2001- 1/5 of London pop is ethnic minorities

28
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Liverpool

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Built by slave trade
Over half of Liverpool’s trade with the colonies
‘New York’ of Europe
1907 owed 1/7 of world registered shipping

29
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Liverpool post imperial decline?

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Post 1950’s
Trade turned to Europe enriching Southern ports
Unemployment among dockworkers
Deindustrialise and economic irrelevance
Most significant victim of globalisation
Racism tension shown in riots 1981

30
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How was Vienna described?

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City of spies

31
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Friedmann and Wolf 1982

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Core economic functions of world cities
Primary- banking, research, transport
Secondary- real estate, entertainment, shopping

32
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With City makes more than a county?

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The GDP of Tokyo is higher than the GDP of Spain

The world bank 2008

33
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Which company makes more than a city?

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The Revenue is Royal Dutch Shell is higher than the GDP of Pakistan

34
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An African city to a Chinese city

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Raw materials for industry

35
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A Chinese city to an African city?

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Business migration

Aid and investment

36
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African city to European City?

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Migration

37
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A European City to an African city?

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Common legal frameworks
Historical ties
Development, assistance and remittances

38
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A European City to a Chinese city?

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Finance and trade

39
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A Chinese city to a European City?

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Real estate investments

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