Week 13 - 18 Flashcards
Define “Global City”
- Sites and mediums of globalization.
- An alpha city, a power city, or a world center.
- All of which are hubs of global finance and capitalism.
Why Globalization is spatial?
- it occurs in physical spaces.
- what makes it move is the fact that it is based in places.
- In the years to come, more and more people will experience globalization through cities.
Examples of global cities:
- New York
- Tokyo
- London
The term ‘global city’ was popularized by?
sociologist Saskia Sassen in the 1990s.
Sydney
In Australia, Sydney commands the greatest proportion of capital.
Melbourne is described as?
Sydney’s rival ‘global city’ because many magazines and lists have now referred to it as the livable city’- a place with good public transportation, a thriving cultural scene, and a relatively easy pace of life.
It determines which cities are global.
Economic power
make it attractive to talents from across the world.
Economic opportunities
Indicators for Globality:
- Economic power
- Economic opportunities
- Market size
- Purchasing power of citizens
- Size of the middle class
- Potential for growth
Washington D.C may not be as wealthy as New York, but it is the seat of American state power:
White House
Capitol Building (Congress)
Supreme Court
Lincoln Memorial
Washington Monument
The cities that house major international organizations may also be considered centers of political influence:
UN’s headquarters is in New York
European Union is in Brussels
ASEAN main headquarters is in Jakarta (also the capital of Indonesia) Indicators for Globality
________, the capital of Denmark is so small that one can tour the entire city by bicycle in thirty minutes is one of the culinary capitals of the world with its top restaurants incommensurate with its size.
Copenhagen
This phenomenon of driving out the poor in favor of newer, wealthier residents is called
Gentrification
The Challenges of Global Cities:
- Population density
- Pollution
- Growing food in ties has also become a challenge due to the lack of agricultural lands and polluted air.
- Fear of terrorism
- Lack of public transportation and inability to regulate car industries.
Statistical study of human populations, especially with reference to size and density, distribution, and vital statistics (births. marriages, deaths, etc.)
Demography
By the start of the 21st century, the world had become ’___ percent urban while the corresponding figures for developed
44 percent
Development planners see urbanization and industrialization as ____________, but disagree on the role of population growth or decline in modernization.
Indicators of a developing society
____________ (British Scholar) warned in his 1978 ‘An Essay on the Principle of Population’ that population growth will inevitably exhaust world food supply by the middle of 19th century.
Thomas Malthus
American biologist ____________ and his wife Anne, wrote The Population Bomb which argued that overpopulation in the 1970s and 1980s would bring about global environmental disasters, that would, in turn, lead to food shortage and starvation.
Paul R. Ehrlich
Developed countries justify their support for population control in developing countries by?
Depicting the latter as conservative societies.
She disagrees with the advocates of neo-Mathusian theory and accused governments of using population control as ‘substitute for social justice and much needed reforms-such as land distribution, employment creation, provision of mass education and health care, and emancipation.
Betsy Hartmann
________, often the subject of the population measures
Women
Why do Christians disagree with contraception?
- Sex was a gift from God for procreation.
- The main purpose of marriage is to have children as God said ‘be fruitful and multiply’.
- Every sperm is sacred.
- Every sexual act should be open to the possibility of having a child.
- Contraception may encourage promiscuity.
Why do Muslims disagree with contraception?
- Only natural forms are allowed.
- Methods that cause an early abortion are not acceptable.
- Having children is very important in family life so it is discouraged.
- Permanent methods are forbidden.
From the feminist perspective, they are against any form of population control because they are
- Compulsory, by nature, resorting to a carrot-and-stick approach (punitive mechanisms co-exist alongside benefits) that actually does not empower women.
- They believe that government assumptions that poverty and environmental degradation are caused by Overpopulation are wrong.
The Migration root word comes from the Latin word ______ - ‘moved, shifted’ which means to move -relating to movements from one country to another.
“Migrare”
