CITB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Saskia Sassen, Manuel Castells, Global City
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How is this relationship reflected as an international division of labour: what does this mean for urban development, digital revolution, paleolithic --> neolithic --> urban --> industrial --> digital. "spatial transformation must be understood in the broader context of social transformation: space does not reflect society, it is a fundamental dimension of society, inseparable of the overall process of social organization and social change. Thus, the new urban world arises from within the process of formation of a new society, the network society, characteristic of the information age" (manuel castells, Space of flows): brenner & keil (2014), historical context: urbanization and global capitalism. John friedmann: foundational contributions to urban planning theory; founded the program for urban. Planning at ucla: 1986 essay on the world city hypothesis was a starting point for exploring the relationship between the process of urbanization and the new international division of labour. Guest lecture (nathan stewart): cities & globalization - understanding the.
