GGR124H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Global City, High Tech, Offshoring
12 Apr 2018
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Where are we? (in time: global connectivity & time space compression, global urbanization, globalization. If were interested in globalization, we also have to consider the ow and movement. How, in the face of all this movement and intermixing, can we retain any sense of a local place and its particularity? - massey: time-space compression. The apparent compression of geographic space by faster means of transport and communication. Suggests that time is accelerated in such a way that geographic space is shrunk. Highlights a relational rather than absolute conception of space. Not only physical movement but also digital connectivity. Does not occur naturally or automatically - it is the result of decisions and plans. Time-space compression is a political and impacts people differently. If you have the means or the infrastructure, you can get somewhere [fast]. The relative distances than can be and have been travelled can be compressed with technologies.
