GGR124H1 Lecture Notes - Global City, High Tech, Free Market
Document Summary
Every city wants to be know as: its cosmopolitan, its outward looking, it has a vision looking out side its border. Globalization means highest-order functions concentrate in only a few key cities there are linkages that are located across the globe instead of just inside the city. Main sites for capital investment much of the global investment that takes place , services investment, economic investment, services, real estate ( towers, sky scrapers, etc. ) Main destination points for migrants (internal and external: external - use as landing point and then move on farther to the country. Most intense places for economic growth, innovation. Large and increasing social inequalities/polarization: income polarization, wealth isn"t distributed equally. First tier new york, london, tokyo: concentrations of the highest order functions. 2nd tier- toronto, sydney, chicago, berlin: concentrations of national and regional hqs , high-tech manufacturing, producer services. Varety of scales: individual households, large scale infrastructure projects. Occurs through market forces and/or government planning.
