Global Cities and International Urbanization

Gateways into GaWC

B. Stanley, Huron University USA in London

FALL 2000, IRE 345/IRE 620

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION:

Globalisation appears to have a home, and that is the new "global cities" emerging world-wide to host and drive it. Global or world cities are the place where the local meets the global, and they are crucial actors and points of contact for the new networks of the 21^st century. This course examines the concepts of the global or world city, investigates the implications of globalisation for international urbanisation, and evaluates the economic, political, social and security implications of the development of global cities. Other concepts such as second tier, city networks, city/hinterland and world cities in a world system are discussed using case studies and web-based data. Students use the London laboratory to test hypotheses and to investigate the new dynamics at the core of global transformation.

EXPECTED STUDENT LEARNING:

Students should conclude this course with the following outcomes:

greater understanding of the two key approaches to city analysis (autonomous and embedded) along with knowledge of the key approaches, themes and authors in both perspectives;
ability to analyze urbanization, urban growth, urban formation and urban change at both the local level and at the global level;
improved research, analytical and writing skills appropriate for handling longer research papers;
deeper insights into the changes occurring to cities as global actors, and the development of global or world cities in particular as centers for change in international relations;
insight into the resistance to globalization and the dynamic nature of political action within cities as the local works out its own future;
increased reading, oral presentation and analytical skills as a result of group work, internet use, class discussion and assignments.

TEACHING METHODS:

Taught concepts are crucial to this course, but learning occurs through substantial use of the intranet, group work, oral presentation and other non-traditional forms of student learning.

REQUIRED BOOKS FOR THE COURSE:

There are two required books for the course

David Clark. URBAN WORLD/GLOBAL CITY. Routledge, London, 1996.

R. Burgess, M. Carmona, T. Kolstee (eds.) THE CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABLE CITIES: NEOLIBERALISM AND URBAN STRATEGIES IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES. Zed Books, London, 1997.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS:

M. Cohen, B. Ruble, J. Tulchin, A. Garland (eds.). PREPARING FOR THE URBAN FUTURE: GLOBAL PRESSURES AND LOCAL FORCES. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1996.

J. Gugler (ed.). THE URBAN TRANSFORMATION OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996.

J.R. Short and Y. Kim. GLOBALIZATION AND THE CITY. Longman, Essex, 1999.

A. Oncu and R. Weyland (eds.). SPACE, CULTURE AND POWER: NEW IDENTITIES IN GLOBALIZING CITIES. Zed Books, London, 1997.

J. Allen, D. Massey and M. Pryke (eds.). UNSETTLING CITIES: MOVEMENT AND SETTLEMENT. Routledge, London, 1999.

P. Knox and P. Taylor. WORLD CITIES IN A WORLD SYSTEM. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. 1995.

S. Sassen. THE GLOBAL CITY: NEW YORK, LONDON, TOKYO. Princeton University Press. Princeton. 1991.

S. Sassen. CITIES IN A WORLD ECONOMY. Pine Forge Press. Thousand Oaks. 1994.

J. Jacobs. CITIES AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS. Random House. New York. 1984.

M. Douglass and J. Friedmann. CITIES FOR CITIZENS: PLANNING AND THE RISE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN A GLOBAL AGE. John Wiley and Sons. Chichester. 1998.

A. King (ed.). RE-PRESENTING THE CITY: ETHNICITY, CAPITAL AND CULTURE IN THE 21^st CENTURY METROPOLIS. Macmillan Press. London. 1996.

P. Marcuse and R. van Kempen (eds.) GLOBALIZING CITIES: A NEW SPATIAL ORDER? Blackwell Publishers. Oxford. 2000.

SUGGESTED WEB SITES:

http://www.sosig.ac.uk/

http://www.ercomer.org/nc/index.html

http://www.intranet.csupomona.edu/~lsgonick/LS401/SU97/index.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/21stC/issue-2.4/sassen.html

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb6.html

http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/links.html

http://www.gsr.or.jp/english/index.shtml

http://www.unu.edu/unupress/unupbooks/uu11ee/uu11ee00.htm#Contents

www.ifg.org

www.ameribiz.com/gci.htm

www.global-cities.org

ASSIGNMENTS:

WEEK ONE: Tuesday, 5 September

Introduction to the Course, Concepts, Definitions and Issues

Resource Center Exercise

Questions for Discussion: What is a city? Are there alternative definitions? Mapping cities – what to map? What are the key layers of cities? Cities as objects of analysis: from what perspectives?

D. Clark, URBAN WORLD/GLOBAL CITY 1-39
Amin and S. Graham, "Cities of Connection and Disconnection" (p. 8-38) in UNSETTLING CITIES (eds.) J. Allen, D. Massey and M. Pryke
R. Stren, "The Studies of Cities: Popular Perceptions, Academic Disciplines, and Emerging Agendas" (p. 392-419) in PREPARING FOR THE URBAN FUTURE, ed. M. Cohen, B. Ruble, J. Tulchin, and A. Garland.
J.R. Short and Y. Kim. GLOBALIZATION AND THE CITY 3 -12
J. Allen, D. Massey and M. Pryke (eds.). UNSETTLING CITIES: MOVEMENT AND SETTLEMENT 8 - 47

WEEK TWO: Tuesday, 12 September

The Autonomous City (a place based view): Real Cities/Real Problems

D. Clark, URBAN WORLD/GLOBAL CITY 40 – 76 (urban growth)
J. Gugler (ed.). THE URBAN TRANSFORMATION OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD 1 – 14
J. Allen, D. Massey and M. Pryke (eds.). UNSETTLING CITIES: MOVEMENT AND SETTLEMENT 51 - 94
M. Douglass and J. Friedmann. CITIES FOR CITIZENS: PLANNING AND THE RISE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN A GLOBAL AGE 9 – 17 (planning and civil society)
King (ed.). RE-PRESENTING THE CITY: ETHNICITY, CAPITAL AND CULTURE IN THE 21^st CENTURY METROPOLIS 158 –176 (Mombasa and Globalization)

WEEK THREE: Tuesday, 19 September

The Autonomous City: Real Cities/Real Problems (cont.)

D. Clark, URBAN WORLD/GLOBAL CITY 100 – 116 (lifestyles)
R. Burgess, M. Carmona, T. Kolstee (eds.) THE CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABLE CITIES 139 – 162, 189 – 201, 215 – 229, 230 –262 (participation, planning in Lima, integrated development in Brazil, credit schemes in Bangkok, development strategies in Indonesia)
J. Gugler (ed.). THE URBAN TRANSFORMATION OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD 17 – 58
J. Allen, D. Massey and M. Pryke (eds.). UNSETTLING CITIES: MOVEMENT AND SETTLEMENT 98 - 135
M. Cohen, B. Ruble, J. Tulchin, A. Garland (eds.). PREPARING FOR THE URBAN FUTURE: GLOBAL PRESSURES AND LOCAL FORCES 157 – 170, 171 – 199, 200 – 221 (population, technology, health)
M. Douglass and J. Friedmann. CITIES FOR CITIZENS: PLANNING AND THE RISE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN A GLOBAL AGE 39 – 65 (popular participation in Brazil)

WEEK FOUR: Tuesday, 26 September

The Autonomous City: Real Cities/Real Problems (cont.)

R. Burgess, M. Carmona, T. Kolstee (eds.) THE CHALLENGE OF SUSTAINABLE CITIES 17 – 31, 44 – 61, 65 – 88, 111 – 124 (macroeconomic strategies, urban social policy, environmental strategies, spatial strategies)
J. Gugler (ed.). THE URBAN TRANSFORMATION OF THE DEVELOPING WORLD 97 – 131, 184 – 208, 211 – 251, 253 - 314
J.R. Short and Y. Kim. GLOBALIZATION AND THE CITY 131 – 141 (
M. Cohen, B. Ruble, J. Tulchin, A. Garland (eds.). PREPARING FOR THE URBAN FUTURE: GLOBAL PRESSURES AND LOCAL FORCES 225 – 241, 242 – 263 (governing)
M. Douglass and J. Friedmann. CITIES FOR CITIZENS: PLANNING AND THE RISE OF CIVIL SOCIETY IN A GLOBAL AGE 91 – 105, 107 – 137 (environment in Los Angeles, environment in Pacific Rim)

WEEK FIVE: Tuesday, 3 October

The Autonomous City: Key Attributes and Types of Cities

Questions for Discussion: Along what categories or variables can we divide cities into types? What are some that are most useful to us in IR? Do any of these categories mix both the autonomous approach and that of the embedded?

Illegal Cities
Imperial Cities
Entrepreneurial Cities
Mega-cities
Million Cities
Capital Cities
Colonial cities
Primate cities

Readings to be assigned

WEEK SIX: Tuesday, 10 October

The Embedded City (a relational view): Cities in the Global System

Questions for Discussion: What concepts of globalization underlie the new awareness of global cities? Along what variables are people judging these developments? What characteristics of global cities should be considered? What is the difference between "globalizing cities" and "global cities"? How important is the distinction?

D. Clark, URBAN WORLD/GLOBAL CITY 77-99, 117 -136
J. Allen, D. Massey and M. Pryke (eds.). UNSETTLING CITIES: MOVEMENT AND SETTLEMENT 271 –319
P. Knox and P. Taylor. WORLD CITIES IN A WORLD SYSTEM. Cambridge University Press 3 – 20
Other readings as assigned

WEEK SEVEN: Tuesday, 17 October

The Embedded City: Global Cities and Hierarchies of Cities

Questions for Discussion: Is the concept of a "global city" useful? What hierarchies or typologies are most useful? Along what variables? What problems are there with the concept?

D. Clark, URBAN WORLD/GLOBAL CITY 137 – 165
J.R. Short and Y. Kim. GLOBALIZATION AND THE CITY 15 –108, 111 - 130
P. Knox and P. Taylor. WORLD CITIES IN A WORLD SYSTEM. Cambridge University Press 171 – 191, 192 – 212 (comparing global cities, Toronto "going global")
Other readings as assigned

WEEK EIGHT: Tuesday, 24 October (UN Day)

Huron Break (No Class)

WEEK NINE: Tuesday, 31 October

The Embedded City: Cities in Networks of Cities (systems and sub-systems of cities; cities embedded in networks)

Questions for Discussion: What are "second-tier cities"? How is thinking about city systems different than thinking about cities embedded in spatial ways? What concepts and aspects of networks are useful for investigation? What is the problem with data? What flow data should we attempt to collect?

J. Allen, D. Massey and M. Pryke (eds.). UNSETTLING CITIES: MOVEMENT AND SETTLEMENT 181 – 269
P. Knox and P. Taylor. WORLD CITIES IN A WORLD SYSTEM. Cambridge University Press 79 – 97, 115 – 131, 156 – 170 (global matrices, transport, Caribbean system)
Other readings as assigned

WEEK TEN: Tuesday, 7 November

The Embedded City: Cities and their nation states (cities embedded in place)

Questions for Discussion:

J.R. Short and Y. Kim. GLOBALIZATION AND THE CITY 111 - 130
J. Jacobs. CITIES AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS 3-44, 204 - 232
P. Knox and P. Taylor. WORLD CITIES IN A WORLD SYSTEM 48 - 62

WEEK ELEVEN: Tuesday, 14 November

The Embedded City: Cities and their hinderlands (cities embedded in place)

Questions for Discussion: What types of flows occur between cities and their hinderlands? How do these relationships change across time? Under the effects of globalization? Why do we consistently misunderstand cities in their regions?

J. Jacobs. CITIES AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS 44 – 104