IS221 Week ELEVEN Lecture_2024

Song of the Week

(thank you Matthew Prenter)

The (Global) City

Dr Nazanin Shahrokni, IS221, 19 March 2024

S T A R T

In 2018, an estimated 55.3 per cent of the world’s population lived in urban settlements. By 2030, urban areas are projected to house 60 per cent of people globally and one in every three people will live in cities with at least half a million inhabitants.

- 2018 World Cities Report

Urbanisation gone amok

Does urban concentration spur economic growth?According to dominant views, urbanisation is linked to the formation of agglomeration economies and productivity gains, which, in turn, lead to greater national economic growth.

Urban Inequality

World Economic Forum, February 2018

Economic Growth

Urban inequality reflects both the unequal distribution of skills and unequal returns to skill. Inequality is positively related to crime, slow growth, and unhappiness. In almost every metropolitan area inequality has risen since 1980. In many cases, the increase in inequality has been considerable.

Harvard Kennedy School, Taubman Center, March 2009

Looking at the city through an intersectional lens

Who produces the city?

Gendering City Making

Women missing from narratives & decision-making processes

Who uses the city, how & for what purpose?

Gendered Experiences

Gendered individuals experience city spaces differently

Who Shapes the Cities?

Feminist Geography

Governing Cities

It has been a long struggle to gain recognition within geography as a discipline that gender relations are a central organizing feature both of the material and symbolic worlds and of the theoretical basis of the discipline. - Linda McDowell & Joanne P. Sharp

Of the world’s largest cities only a small percentage are governed by women.

It is important to note that women mayors often bring in new perspectives and agenda.

Designing the Cities

At least 13 barriers have been identified to Canadian women architects achieving equity—from low or unequal pay and slower rates of promotion, to inflexible working hours and poor return-to-work training following parental leave.

Who Narrates the Cities?

The Geographies of Fear

This paper examines the relationship between women's fear of male violence and their perception and use of space. Consideration is given to how public space is occupied and controlled by different groups at different times. The conclusion drawn is that women's inhibited use of space is a spatial expression of patriarchy.

Gill Valentine (1989) "The Geography of Women's Fear" Area 21(4): 385-390.

Global Networks of Interdependent Economies

Cities as the key nodes in the international system

THE GLOBAL CITY

London as a Global City

London primed to be the next generation of global hubs by assessing four metrics: personal wellbeing, economics, innovation, and governance. 72 of the world’s Michelin star restaurants, Host to major sporting events. Developing Creative Enterprise Zones in different parts of the city.

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Subject to agglomeration economy

Effective command-and-coordinate posts for Transnational Corporations

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European Business Magazine

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De-linked from national economy but located in national territories

Migration, Labour & the City

Global Migration & Migrants

Migrant workers in

Data on Labour Migration

Thinking analytically about global cities

Geographies of centrality & marginality

Geometries of power

Contradictory Space

The Global City through An Intersectional Lens

2018

"This is what happens when people move out," Johnson says, gesturing to a massive conference room with million-dollar views over Central Park. "I come in here and I do yoga."

Whose City?

The City

by Lewis Mumford1939

The Florida Project

by Sean Baker2017

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City

by Matt Tyernauer2016

It's Show Time Folks!

Q2P

by Paromita Vohra2012

Go & explore the city with this new vision....

Have a great week!