JGI216H1 Lecture : Lecture notes
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20 Apr 2011
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Skyscrapers, stock market, borders, gangs (inequalities), recognizable names, airports, headquarters, developed infrastructures, tourism, history, culture, etc. Power (dynamic), exchange, capital, flow of information, transnational capitalist class (wall st. person) Saskia sassen (1991)- book: the global city: ny, london, tokyo. economical activity- globlaized, moving with greater frequency and ease. Concentration of hyper profit but also disperse of economic land space. 1. regional, international economies into a global system: spatial dimension (?, social and economic interactions are intense, large amounts of diversity (diff culture, gender, religion, etc. , hierarchical ranking www. notesolution. com. 5. transnational capitalist class social class coming from world city, easy to accumulate wealth and move in between borders, consumerists. Political participate in world affairs/events and also influence them. Tap into them and become one of them. alpha, beta, gamma + high sufficiency and sufficiency. Beta- regional, dependency on inward flows, emerging global cities, almost there . Gamma- linking smaller regions or states into world integrationaa.
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