Global Demography + City + Migration Flashcards
(50 cards)
sociologist who popularized the concept of “global city”
Saskia Sassen
NYSE stands for
New York Stock Exchange
FTSE stands for
Financial times Stock Exchange
This city surpasses New York in terms of cultural importance
Los Angeles’ Hollywood
home of the online companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google
San Francisco
The growth of the Chinese economy has turned cities such as Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou into centers of _________ and ________
trade and finance
How many corporate headquarters do Tokyo and New York house
Tokyo - 613
New York - 217
Economist Intelligence Unit added the following criteria to measure the economic competitiveness of a city
List them
- Market size
- Purchasing power of the citizens
- Size of the middle class
- Potential for growth
Cities that are home to large international organizations
Political hotspots
exerts influence on their own countries as well as on international affairs
Political hubs
What is Australia’s third greatest export
Education
List challenges of global cities
✓Sites of great inequality, poverty, and violence
✓ Global cities create winners and losers.
✓ In cities with extensive public transportation systems, people tend to drive less and thereby cut carbon emissions.
✓ Some cities, invest in automobiles and gasoline, and some are severely filthy
✓Urban areas consume most of the world’s energy.
✓Cities only cover 2% of the world’s landmass, but they consume 78% of the global energy.
✓ “Vertical farms” is a sustainable solution to curb massive emissions and energy consumption.
✓ Major terror attacks of recent years have also targeted cities. Cities are attractive to migrant workers, on the other hand, cities are vulnerable to violent attacks
the process of displacing the poor in favor of newer and wealthier residents
Gentrification
statistical study of human populations
Demography
Rural areas/ livelihood is dependent on what
agriculture
Urban areas/ livelihood is dependent on what
2 incomes
The 3 things that are apart of the spatial phenomenon
International investments
Workers in cities or abroad
Displacement of poor people
who made the principle of population
Thomas Robert Malthus
Principle of populations is based on 2 premises
- Food is necessary to live
- Humans will procreate and “be fruitful and multiple”
mortality declines and fertility remains high =
increase in the proportion of children in the population
fertility declines and child dependency ratio declines =
working age population grows faster than the population as a whole
increased longevity =
rapid increase in the elderly population
low fertility =
slows the growth of the working age population
contraception and sterilization were among the solutions to overpopulation in what year
1958
