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Week1Part1Globalization.pptx
The analysis of urban development of the past twenty years presented in this maiden edition of the World Cities Report shows, with compelling evidence, that there are new forms of collaboration and cooperation, planning, governance, finance and learning that can sustain positive change.
The Report unequivocally demonstrates that the current urbanization model is unsustainable in many respects.
It conveys a clear message that the pattern of urbanization needs to change in order to better respond to the challenges of our time, to address issues such as inequality, climate change, informality, insecurity, and the unsustainable forms of urban expansion.
http://wcr.unhabitat.org/main-report/
World Cities Report 2016
Learning Objectives
Describe major characteristics of global urbanization (e.g., extent, speed, physical forms) and how the process unfolds differently in developing and developed countries.
Explain how the world's city-regions are increasingly interlinked (socially, economically, culturally, technically, ecologically); and how this poses new challenges for urban and regional planning.
Identify four key features of globalization regardless of political standpoint
Grasp the orders of magnitude of global population growth, how many people, where (urban, rural proportions)
Describe the paradigm shift in urban and environmental planning (from D-->E, to E-->D) and origins of sustainability thinking
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Reproducing Ourselves: Tapping Local and Distant Sources
Think of something you are currently consuming that is now inside or on your body.
What is it?
Where did it come from?
Who produced it? With what sources and sinks (raw materials, waste disposal vectors)
Is the labor power involved healthy, safe? Is the production process sustainable, regenerative?
The World’s Population
What % is urban?
What % is young (age 24 or younger)?
What % is elderly (age 60 or older)?
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If the world was a village of 1000 people
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If the world was a village of 1000 people
For what life is like in these different parts of the world, form a journalistic story perspective, see: (but not required) Vogel, Gretchen. 2011. "Regional Snapshots." Science 333:555-557. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6042/555.full
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http://www.urbandesignlab.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/pres_NESAWG_text_110111.pdf
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http://www.urbandesignlab.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/pres_NESAWG_text_110111.pdf
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“Some city-regions increasingly act like quasi city-states, even to the point of engaging in diplomatic relations with other cities and states in ways that by-pass their own national governments. Along with the expanding scale and increased autonomy of city-regions, have come many experiments with new forms of regional governance” (Friedmann 2002).
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Global Urbanization and the Rise of City-Regions
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Learning Objectives
Describe major characteristics of global urbanization (e.g., extent, speed, physical forms) and how the process unfolds differently in developing and developed countries.
Explain how the world's city-regions are increasingly interlinked (socially, economically, culturally, technically, ecologically); and how this poses new challenges for urban and regional planning.
Identify four key features of globalization regardless of political standpoint
Grasp the orders of magnitude of global population growth, how many people, where (urban, rural proportions)
Describe the paradigm shift in urban and environmental planning (from D-->E, to E-->D) and origins of sustainability thinking
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