L4-6 Flashcards
Policy mobility
Charts the global spread of policies through different cities in the world, examining how and why certain ideas become popular.
Ordinary cities
focusing on average cities might be different and show how processes work in different ways
Worlding cities
Cities of the global south can generate productive and provocative theoretical frameworks for all cities
Worlding cities
Cities of the global south can generate productive and provocative theoretical frameworks for all cities
World Cities
Command and control theory
Urban hierarchy
Small number of powerful urban regions that control and govern capital globally
Controls network of finance, production and market expansion
Issues with world city concept
- Doesn’t focus enough on how cities function as a system
- Advanced producer services argues that centralized command and control companies become so big secondary businesses are required as a form of infrastructure
- Causes greater agglomeration
- Globalisation interconnections do not impact equally across the global system
Although part of one system they are not equal, in fact can develop and produce inequality
Networks
- Competes for power in the global network
- Power of cities is made and constructed through performative actions ( i.e. hosting sporting events, festivals etc)
- Urban elite builds links through the city
- Same companies investing everywhere homogenization of cities, attract the “creative class”
- Interlinking of cities and its importance impacts how important the surrounding lands are/ linkages
- What parts of the global city do we focus on (capital vs people)
Economies and cities vs Cities and economies
Economic modes shape production of urban spaces (Harvey) vs Cities formed and produced economies within them (jacobs)
Fordist system
Assembly line production, white male dominated, well paid stable jobs, highways pushed people into the suburbs, social programs
Post Fordist
Knowledge based economy, information and skill levels important
not focused on manufacturing, labor divided
service sector jobs become key
Uneven development
loss of social programs
Urban form Post Fordist
Edge cities, downtown come back, gentrification
Competitive advantage of groups
Clustering advantage
knowledge sharing
poaching of skilled workers
i.e. kingstons prison industry
Entrepreneurial city
down town investment “the creative city”
who gets this bonus
division of labour
creates gentrification
Key economic policies for an entrepreneurial city
Public-private partnerships (PPPs)
Business Improvement Districts
Tax Incremental Financing (TIF)
