SOC251 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Industrial Revolution, Urban Sprawl, John Friedmann
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Command and control centers of the global economy. Jane jacobs cities and the wealth of nations-very active in toronto and improving the urban nature of the city-more liveable and more safe: sashia sassin the global city. Sites of leading global markets are commerce, finance, and trade. These are where the world global markets are. Highly specialized advanced business services that are international in scope. Most powerful and influential media news, information services, and culture. The world is becoming more and more urban. Managing urban population change will be one of the world"s most important challenges in the enxt few decades. More attention must be focused on this phenomenon. If you look at the less developed countreis (most of pop lives there), how to cope with the increase and growing populatios in these urban cities. Developing countries process of urbanization has been intensifying lately ever since 20 years ago. Developed nations urbanization mostly happedned during the industrial revolution.
