Globalization and Global Cities

Global Cities–production and consumption

This week, we will learn about globalization and global cities; explore how thesis of the global city has developed in the context of globalization and internationalization; and discuss how we understand our current urban issues, such as gentrification, creative class, and urban branding, by expanding our understandings of the local context to a global scale.

Learn more about four types of new spatial forms of economic globalization, including Maquiladoras, and key functions of the global city.

• Read:
  • Saskia Sassen’s “The Global City: Introducing a Concept” Brown Journal of World Affairs 11(2): 27-43.
  • Jesus Leal Trujillo and Joseph Parilla’s “Redefining Global Cities” Brookings Institute
• Watch:
  • Watch three videos and think about economic globalization and its consequences.
  • The Crossroads: Inside US – Mexico Trade by GED Project

• • Maquilapolis: City of Factories – Working in a Maqiluadora by PBS

• • Between Borders: American Migrant Crisis by The New York Times
    • If you are interested in border issues, watch this documentary.

 

• • Watch two short videos about “Global Cities, Local Streets”

If you are interested in local streets in global cities across the global from New York City to Shanghai to Tokyo to Amsterdam, read this book, Global Cities, Local Streets. These two videos are made by the authors.

• • • Orchard Street, New York

• • • Tianzifang, Shanghai