This document discusses themes related to globalization, urbanization, and cities. It covers topics such as transnational flows, agglomeration, inequality, and sustainability. Specific examples discussed include the Haussmann plan in Paris in the 1850s which required major slum clearances, and more recent evictions of poor communities in many global cities to make way for redevelopment. It also presents models of urban economic development and discusses some key global public policy challenges faced by cities today.

1. Themes/Paris MPPA-DL 452 Spring 2011 Session 1

3. Circuits: Transnationals, Diasporas

4. Centers: Agglomeration & Sprawl

5. Margins: New Inequalities

6. Ecologies: Sustainability

7. Architectures: A Sense of Place

8. Crises: Globalization in Reverse

10. Since 2007, more people now live in urban areas than in rural areas worldwide Source: United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects

13. Paris

14. “Cities are highly complex systems of advantage, which shifting alliances try to shape to their advantage by building and using them in often competing ways.” Jeb Brugmann, Welcome to the Urban Revolution, Ch. 6, p. 103 (2009)

15. “…the dominant narrative about economic globalization is a narrative of eviction because its key concepts – globalization, information economy, and telematics – all suggest that place no longer matters. And they suggest that the type of place represented by major cities may have become obsolete from the perspective of the economy... “It is an account that privileges the capability for global transmission over the concentrations of built infrastructure that makes transmission possible, that privileges information outputs over the work of producing those outputs, from specialists to secretaries, and the new transnational corporate culture over the multiplicity of cultural environments, including reterritorialized immigrant cultures, within which many of the ‘other’ jobs of the global information economy take place. “The overall effect is to lose the place-boundednessof significant components of the global information economy.” SaskiaSassen, “Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City” (2002)

16. “As in 1860s Paris under the fanatical reign of Baron Haussmann, urban redevelopment still strives to simultaneously maximize private profit and social control… “Urban segregation is not a frozen status quo, but rather a ceaseless social war in which the state intervenes regularly in the name of “progress,” “beautification,” and even “social justice for the poor” to redraw spatial boundaries to the advantage of landowners, foreign investors, elite homeowners, and middle-class commuters… “The most intense class conflicts over urban space, of course, take place in downtowns and major urban nodes…where globalized property values collide with the desperate need of the poor to be near central sources of income.” Mike Davis, Planet of Slums (2006)

17. Haussmann plan (1850-1870)

18. Haussmann plan (1850-1870)

19. Boulevard system required major slum clearance

20. Other more recent evictions 1950, Hong Kong – 107,000 1965-74, Rio de Janeiro – 139,000 1972-76, Dakar – 90,000 1976, Mumbai – 70,000 1986-92, Santo Domingo – 180,000 1988, Seoul – 800,000 1990, Lagos – 300,000 1990, Nairobi – 40,000 1995-96, Rangoon – 1,000,000 1995, Beijing – 100,000 2001-03, Jakarta – 500,000 2005, Harare – 750,000+ Source: Mike Davis, Planet of Slums(2006)

21. A basic model of urbaneconomic development agricultural  industrial  commercial  information (evolutionary and cumulative)

22. agricultural

24. industrial

26. commercial

28. information

30. Global public policy problems: epidemics/pandemics

33. Global public policy problems: aging population

36. Global public policy problems: terrorism

39. Global public policy problems: climate change

42. Global public policy problems: inequality and poverty

43. Gini Coefficient – Measure of Income Inequality (2007)

44. Percentage population living on less than $1 per day, 2007

45. MPPA DL-452: Grading A total of 1,000 points may be awarded in this course. Grades are awarded according to the following breakdown: 900-1000 = A; 800-899 = B; 650-799 = C; 0-649 = F.

46. MPPA DL-452: Case studies