GEOG 3023 Study Guide - Bryant Park, Global City, Spatial Planning
Document Summary
Dynamic and multiple geographies of urbanization: macro-geographies, connectedness of the world, internal geographies. Discourse is used to frame cities differently (london is a global city; mexico city is a hyper-city) Neo-liberalism: unregulated markets; let money dictate where everything goes; operate by the same laws no matter where the theory is. Fordist-keynesian regime: the welfare states and the managerial city . National urban hierarchy: tiers 1-4: national importance, regional, sub-regional, local centres. Post-fordist/neo-liberal regime: the entrepreneurial city flexible modes of production; niche markets: the neoliberal turn: theory vs. practice. Theory: emphasis on markets, minimal states, and individual choice as optimal means of ensuring economic and social well-being. Practice: highly variable and uneven, but some common patterns (path dependency and actually existing neo-liberalism: social and spatial fragmentation/polarization. Path dependency: legacies of inherited institutional frameworks, policy regimes, regulatory practices and political struggles . Roll back neoliberalization: destruction, deregulation, removing elements of the keynesian state, change of existing institutional arrangements.
