GEOG 216 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Globalization And World Cities Research Network
15 May 2016
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Lecture 34 the world of the city. Different approaches to the study of cities under conditions of contemporary globalization: Post-fordism and globalization new spatial configurations are emerging. Economic activities cluster to benefit from agglomeration economies (marshall) Key clusters as localized industrial production complexes (i. e. new industrial spaces) Tnc"s, financial flows, trade flows, new institutions. Concept first introduced by geographer thomas hall (1966) Cities as centers of trade, political power, knowledge creation and dissemination. Essential ingredients for methodological framework to study world cities". Friedmann and wolff (1982, 1986) identified world cities after hal, based on their degree of enmeshment" into world economic activities (i. e. how they are linked to the global economy) (recall the notions of extensity, intensity and velocity) They argued that mnc"s were the primary agents of change- the command and control locations were there headquarters and their network affiliates. They also developed an inventory of the world"s cities (small sample of 30 cities)
