GGR124H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Business Improvement District, Spatial Mismatch, Precarious Work
22 May 2016
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Globalization: defined not only by population growth, but also by particular relationships between places/parts of the world (e. g. between cities) Global urbanization: 54% of world"s population live in urban areas, 80% in the global south. Doreen massey: place is constructed out of a particular constellation of social relationship, meeting/weaving together at a particular locus. Time-space compression: the movement & communication across space, the geographical stretching-out of social relationship & our experience of all this. Places do not have single, unique "identities": they are full of internal conflicts. Ethnocentric: capitalism & its developments (alongside other established social regularities) have influenced our understanding & experience of space. Mobility & control of mobility reflects & reinforces power. Political globalization: hollowing out" of nation states, prominence of supranational governing bodies. & de-democratization (authority has become increasingly defined by international agreements) Political relations shape urban space, but space also shared political relations: space can.
