GEOG 352 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Barely Breaking Even, Megacity, United Nations Human Settlements Programme
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Global cities characteristics the pictures had in common: density, congestion, sprawling, high-rises video: the bigger the city higher inequality remember that it is the rural that is feeding urban growth. Megacities a city with over 10 million people. Brenner & schmid 2013: how do we categorize something as a city, e. g. vancouver and toronto very different densities. Experimentation in the global south b/c of neoliberalism & massive growth, they have an opportunity to test ideas. Global south experience: globalization is not flat (sparke 2007), everywhere is somewhere. Locatedness of all theory: every urban theory must appreciate the local context for our projects, think about what is different about our city, the history of the present let"s retell stories from different perspectives. Worlding: globility travel of capital, worldliness is the state of being in the world, being able to have a home - ontological security (young 2000, travels of global capital role.
