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from The Global City, Northwestern University, Summer 2011, graduate public policy courseTRANSCRIPT
Themes/Paris
MPPA-DL 452Spring 2011
Session 1
Course Themes
• Dynamics: Globalization, Urbanization
• Circuits: Transnationals, Diasporas
• Centers: Agglomeration & Sprawl
• Margins: New Inequalities
• Ecologies: Sustainability
• Architectures: A Sense of Place
• Crises: Globalization in Reverse
• Frontiers: Looking Ahead
Source: United Nations, World Urbanization Prospects
Since 2007, more people now live in urban areas than in rural areas worldwide
Paris
“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)
“…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-boundedness of significant components of the global information economy.”
Saskia Sassen, “Analytic Borderlands: Economy and Culture in the Global City” (2002)
“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)
Haussmann plan (1850-1870)
Haussmann plan (1850-1870)
Boulevard system required major slum clearance
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)
A basic model of urban economic development
agricultural industrial commercial information
(evolutionary and cumulative)
agricultural
industrial
commercial
information
Global public policy problems: epidemics/pandemics
Global public policy problems: aging population
Global public policy problems: terrorism
Global public policy problems: climate change
Global public policy problems: inequality and poverty
Gini Coefficient – Measure of Income Inequality (2007)
Percentage population living on less than $1 per day, 2007
MPPA DL-452: GradingMidterm exam (essay) Due by Sunday, July 24, 2011, at
11:59pm (no time limit)150 pts
Final exam (proctored—see Assignments; must submit location request by Sunday, June 26)
Due by Monday, August 22, 2011 at 11:59pm (3 hours)
150 pts
Blackboard participation Weekly (30 pts per week; first posts by Thursday, reactions/additional posts through Sunday night)
300 pts
Case studies See next page 400 pts
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.
MPPA DL-452: Case studiesIndividual case study, Part 1 – city/theme selection
Due by Sunday, July 3, 2011 at 11:59pm
10 pts
Individual case study, Part 2 – 10 page city/theme case study
Due by Sunday, July 17, 2011 at 11:59pm
190 pts
Groups formed Week 5
Group case study, Part 1 –resource list
Due by Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 11:59pm
10 pts
Group case study, Part 2 – presentation
Due by Sunday, August 14, 2011 at 11:59pm
190 points