POLSCI 2H03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Global City, Metanarrative, Westernization

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2H03
• Professor: T A

Document Summary

The way cities are portrayed in globalization is in opposition to globalization. Seem to be local entities, whereas globalization is a global/fluid/dynamic entity. Local cultures as helpless victims of global forces. Cities are victims of westernization or as creatures of the state. No power outside of what state gives them. Presented as locally-bound entities within the state. Idea that cities are key point in world economy. Tendency in literature is to localize the various processes within the boundaries of the city. Cities positioned as competitive sites for an agglomeration for competitive processes. Kind of like a state trying to gain a lead in the global economy. Cities are operating through economic relations that transcend through different spatial scales. Key structures of global economies are positioned in cities. Let firms operate closely, create networks that make cities key sites for world economy. Focusing on cities rather than relations that go on between them.