GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Global City, Gated Community, Abu Dhabi
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Geog 102
Cultural Geography
Spring 2017
Global cities: Aspiration
○ Creating out of mega cities-global cities
○ See discource of making southern cities northern
○ Also other Asian examples now too
■ Singapore of Surabaya
■ Create gated community for people to feel like they are living in Singapore in
Indonesia
■ Third world cities used as reference point
■ Shanghai has become another example in 3rd world to aspire to
■ Another 3rd world example: Dubai
■ Urban environment stamped out of nothing based on wealth and clever
marketing
■ Starting to see idea of own modern architecture
■ Capital city of Malaysia: built self consciously using modern Muslim
architecture
Making Global Cities: ‘Best’ practice
○ Making these cities into globally competitive locations where any capitalist in the
world would want to invest
○ First world agencies in the business of trying to figure out how to do this
○ Hernando de Soto
■ Formalizing private land markets
■ The Mystery of Capital: why capitalism triumphs in West and Fails
everywhere else
■ Everyone in slum is potentially in entrepenuer who can figure out how to get
rich is he has means to do it
■ More than anything else, people in slums don’t have property ownership
■ If you own that house you could use that to finance your business
■ If you don’t, you have nothing to bring to market to start your business
■ Governments in the third world should be giving property rights to residents
in the slums
■ 2nd recommendation: governments in the third world overregulate economic
activities; need to make it easier for people to start businesses; reducing role
of government in shaping economic sector
■ private property idea has become an initiative across third world
■ Westernizing property relations, replacing indigenous
Development challenges by form urbanization is taking in third world
3 features of urbanization as it plays out in third world after colonialism
○ creates different experience than urbanization in first world
○ extreme concentration of urban populations in relatively few really large cities
○ speed with which urbanization happens, massive rate of growth, massive numbers of
people migrating