GPHY 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fokker E.Ii, Geomatics, Dry Cleaning
16 Dec 2016
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Globalisation from below: the ranking of global immigrant cities benton-short, price and. Presents new database/index for urban immigrant destinations and compares with existing world cities rankings. Econ measurements have been privileged in criteria for world city functions, to the detriment of pol, env, and socio-cultural aspects of globalisation. Movement of people shapes culture; migration is thus as central as trade and finance to globalisation. Gawc roster; alpha, beta and gamma cities. % of foreign-born changes the city rankings, but is a crude measure of cultural globalisation: must examine the composition of foreign-born city residents to consider their diversity. Urban immigration index considers: % foreign-born, total number of foreign-born, % of foreign-born not from a neighbouring country and cities where no one group represents. Amsterdam is an alpha city on the gawc urban immigration index, the hague is a beta city. Uneven nature of globalisation processes; entire regions are left off the map (mainly due to.
