GGR124H1 Lecture 3: GGR LECTURE 3
7 May 2018
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LECTURE 3
GLOBALIZATION
Learning Goals:
1. Global Urbanization
2. Globalization
3. Gloal Cities
4. Ati ad Alter Gloalizatio
Questions:
Why is globalization so important to cities (and vice versa)?
Why have urbanization and globalization taken shape together?
What do e ea gloalizatio?
How has globalization transformed the urban fabric?
How are cities and urban citizens responding to globalization?
TIME-SPACE COMPRESSION:
• The apparent compression of geographic space by faster means of transport and
communication
• Highlights a relational rather than absolute conception of space
• Many scholars emphasize the uneven experience of time-space compression globally
(while spae sees to e opressed for soe, for others it may actually be extended)
“oiet has eoe opletel uraized. - Lefebvre, 1970 (author of The Urban Revolution,
a book about urbanization and globalization)
What might this mean?
1. A dramatic expansion of the global urban population.
2. A worldwide transformation of social, cultural and economic life organized by
urbanization.
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GLOBAL URBANIZATION:
• The global urban population has grown from 746 million in 1950 to 3.9 billion in 2014
• Urban populations are growing at twice the rate of the global population in general
• % of the orlds populatio resided i ura areas i i , % of the
orlds populatio as ura
• urban slums house more than 600 million people worldwide
• gloal south ities ake up % of orlds populatio
• continuing urbanization and population growth is projected to add 2.5 billion people to
the urban population by 2050, the increase concentrated in Asia and Africa
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• caution there are differet easures of ura
There is o oo gloal defiitio of hat ostitutes a ura settlement. As a result, the
urban definition employed by national statistical offices varies widely across countries, and in
some cases has changed over time within a country. The criteria for classifying an area as urban
may be based on one or a combination of characteristics, such as: a minimum population
threshold; population density; proportion employed in non- agricultural sectors; the presence
of infrastructure such as paved roads, electricity, piped water or sewers; and the presence of
education or health series.
- United Nations, 2014
CHINE“E CITIE“…
• Chias ura populatio soared fro illio in 1952 to 691 million in 2012
• If current trends hold, China's urban population will hit the one billion mark by 2030
• By 2025, China will have 221 cities of more than a million people
• Today, all of Europe has only 35
ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION:
• groth of trasatioal orporatios ad offshorig
• organization of production and markets at a global scale
• industrialization of the global south
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