Lecture 3- Global cities Flashcards
intro cities
cities have all the wealth
mega more than 10 million population
tokyo-35 million- growth of world megacities-
1975- 26.6
2005-35.2
2015-35.5
san paulo- pop is growing
world cities
attracts global movements of labour
TNC
Global travel- heathrow
large service sectors
control centres of global economy
london- seat of gov- locus of many Hqs- historical imperial power base- alpha ++ city- with NYC
Global cities
most of africa- doesn’t have them
europe high concentration
asias increasing- singapore - asian tigers
tier of hierarchy of cities
Global cities thesis - sassen 1991
TNC HQ- hubs of global markets and networks
specialist service sector- subject economics f agglomeration
globalisation- increases complexity and dispersal of TNC operations
human capital
education- london nyc top of this
but san fran top of personal well being
london- pawn in a game of global investors- london property market- chinese and middle east
buying property to rent- raising the prices
Wannabe global cities and self generating discourse
encouraged strategies for urban boosterism
identity of being a global cities- commodified- competition amount aspirant cities
Bilbao- making cultural work - using increasing currency of cultural capital
self generating discourse- used to justify controversial policy choices- fear of foreign competitors
wannabe global cities- Dubai
nov of 1997- jumeriah group started
indian largest trading nation- trade with nation
tourism
financial service hub
100 nationalities just working for jumeriah
2005-18 chinese companies now 2000 chinese companies
bring product to the market so quickly
immigration- to generate and grow the economy
not showing the mistreating of immigration
The process of global cities
movement of information and geopolitical conflicts
spatial organisation of production and transformation of space relations
shifting of flows of labour power commodities and money capital
critique on global cities
generalisation - ascribing narrow characteristics to the whole
positionality- urban theory building has ignored or orientalised- specific conditions or diff cities of the global south
not showing the consequences on how they did it
tnc- bring them in- by making them not pay tax- asian tigers- starbucks
Global cities as leaders
cities have the ability to help with change
c40 cities leadership group- reducing both greenhouse gas emissions
rocker feller 100 resilient cities- helping cities with changes and impacts
commodity fetishism
no relation to the actual price- exchange relations- commodities- instead of human relations- marxist view
what is a commodity- produced, consumed, exchanged, traded, sold- london metal exchange
Reading- french et al 2009
china and beijing- exerted bring policy control over its financial institutions and centres
such as shanghai and advanced cautiously
crisis taking place in the heart of the dominant anglo american model of financial capitals
Reading- short 2004
theories as command centres of global economy
vital hubs of flows of goods, people and ideas
total of 123 world cities were identified
non world city status reflects poverty - social collapse tends to occur more easily in very poor cities- can cause anitcaptalistic ideologies
all cities partake in some from of global connections
national ideologies also play a role- tehran- not encouraged global economic connections
reading- short 2004- more
most connected city london- value of 1
nyc-0.196
