GEOG 217 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Global City, Saskia Sassen
30 Sep 2017
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Lecture 15: cities in the age of globalization: patterns of urban growth, understanding global urbanization. Significance of sheer scale of urban population growth * Differential incidence of urbanization in the world: the more developed regions exhibit high levels of urbanization, the less developed regions are characterized by rapid urbanization that is expected to continue for decades. Remarkable speed and spatial extent of global urban change * To understand these changes, we need to look at the factors that led slowly and incrementally to the distinctive core/ periphery pattern of urban development by 1950 and the factors that are responsible for global urbanization since then. America by 1890, the level of urban development in the core remained low: urban development was still negligible in the periphery. New international division of labour: developing countries: concentration of mass labour tasks, developed countries: concentration of management, organization and design work.
