GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 32: Global City, Gated Community, Abu Dhabi
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See discource of making southern cities northern. Create gated community for people to feel like they are living in singapore in. Third world cities used as reference point. Shanghai has become another example in 3rd world to aspire to. Urban environment stamped out of nothing based on wealth and clever. Starting to see idea of own modern architecture. Capital city of malaysia: built self consciously using modern muslim marketing. 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 everywhere else rich is he has means to do it. The mystery of capital: why capitalism triumphs in west and fails. Everyone in slum is potentially in entrepenuer who can figure out how to get. More than anything else, people in slums don"t have property ownership.