BUSS1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Political Geography, Megacity, Sustainable City

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Business Studies
• Course: BUSS1000
• Professor: Steven Hitchcock

Document Summary

Week 9 urbanisation: what is urbanisation, why, where and speed of urbanisation, what are some effects of urbanisation, what is the relationship between urbanisation and the other megatrends, we are in business! An example of how urbanisation impacts business: understanding urbanisation, looking at how other megatrends link to urbanisation, consider how the speed of urbanisation can impact, climate change, sustainability. Notes from reading how megacities are changing the map of the world [video] (khanna, 2018) The world is now much more connected than it ever was before, both virtually and physically (transportation, energy and communication). Think about electricity and fuel, gps, the internet and intranets, cellular networks and data centres. 64 million km of roads, 2 million km of roads and 1 million km of internet cables. Khanna uses the word connectography", the portmanteau of connectivity and geography. Connectivity, not sovereignty has become the organising principle of the human species.