Cities, Empires And Globalisation

Question 1

Example of diffusion?

Answer 1

Diffusion of idea and technologies from Mesopotamia to Nile Valley

Question 2

Example of invention?

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Phoenicia?

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Oldest inhabitants city in the world?

Answer 4

Byblos since 7000 BC

Question 5

Xenos?

Answer 5

Foreigner
Stranger
Friend in a foreign city
Both guest and alien

Question 6

Proxenos

Answer 6

Citizen who acts on behalf of all foreigners

Promoted alliance and friendship

Question 7

Renaissance Florence

Answer 7

1400’s

Modern international banking is born

Question 8

Dutch dominance

Answer 8

17th century
Amsterdam- Wall St
Leiden- textiles

Question 9

British dominance

Answer 9

London- world financial centre

Manchester- cottonopolis

Question 10

The first modern empires?

Answer 10

Portuguese

Discover Brazil

Question 11

British empire?

Answer 11

1931

Britain claimed a quarter of the global land and population

Question 12

What ideologies shaped colonial cities?

Answer 12

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

Question 13

What new professions rose in the nineteenth century?

Answer 13

Land surveyors
Civil engineers
Architects and town planners

Question 14

Singapore?

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Wide streets?

Answer 15

Justified by public health concerns

Actually used to control space and prevent the errection of slums

Question 16

Colonial strategies for controlling space?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

African example of colonial control?

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Poor cities of the British empire?

Answer 18

Mumbai
Kolkata
Lagos
Cape Town

Question 19

What was Shanghai used for?

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What was the cordon sanitaire?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

The sanitation catastrophe?

Answer 21

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

Question 22

Trusteeship?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Pioneering socialist and planner?

Answer 23

Patrick Geddes

Question 24

Conservative surgery

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Calcutta?

Answer 25

1700’s British trading post 
‘City of palaces’ 
In C20 demand drops and trade suffers 
City declined 
‘City of dreadful night’

Question 26

Impacts of empire cities in Britain?

Answer 26

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

Question 27

London and immigration stat

Answer 27

2001- 1/5 of London pop is ethnic minorities

Question 28

Liverpool

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Liverpool post imperial decline?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

How was Vienna described?

Answer 30

City of spies

Question 31

Friedmann and Wolf 1982

Answer 31

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

Question 32

With City makes more than a county?

Answer 32

The GDP of Tokyo is higher than the GDP of Spain

The world bank 2008

Question 33

Which company makes more than a city?

Answer 33

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

Question 34

An African city to a Chinese city

Answer 34

Raw materials for industry

Question 35

A Chinese city to an African city?

Answer 35

Business migration

Aid and investment

Question 36

African city to European City?

Answer 36

Migration

Question 37

A European City to an African city?

Answer 37

Common legal frameworks
Historical ties
Development, assistance and remittances

Question 38

A European City to a Chinese city?

Answer 38

Finance and trade

Question 39

A Chinese city to a European City?

Answer 39

Real estate investments

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