GEOG 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Global City, Neoliberalism, Opportunism
Document Summary
Tension between territorial fixity and geographical expansion at the heart of urban development also operate to create unstable entanglements of growth and decline: localized effort. Mega-urban cities are a form of post-national reterritorialization. Global cities teach us useful lessons about the impact of global economic integration on territory, space, and place. Spectacular urbanism : results of a relentless competition for investment under neoliberal forms of globalization. Neoliberal global cities all tend to exhibit at least three out of the four features of spectacular urbanism: high-end mega-malls, gentrified and beautified downtown cores, big-budget mega-projects, luxury apartment towers, gated communities, and other securitized domestic spaces. Devastating poverty of global city slums, shacks, and decayed public housing makes manifest processes of dispossession. Splintered urbanism : processes producing splintered urbanism create fractured spaces that are often viewed as dead when compared to the high-end residences, gated enclaves, and offices of global city affluence, four features of splintering.
