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Global cities in the 21 st Century

Global cities in the 21 st Century. Sao Paulo, Brazil Photo: Simon Turner. Alan Kinder Chief Executive, Geographical Association. Introducing cities. Lewanski, C. (2016) Geography 101 (1). Urban age project http://lsecities.net/ua/. Evening Standard Tuesday 3 February 2015.

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Global cities in the 21 st Century

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  1. Global cities in the 21st Century Sao Paulo, Brazil Photo: Simon Turner • Alan Kinder • Chief Executive, Geographical Association

  2. Introducing cities Lewanski, C. (2016) Geography 101 (1) Urban age project http://lsecities.net/ua/

  3. Evening Standard Tuesday 3 February 2015 “The baby who pushed London's population to an all time high” • Kelly Davies met Kosovan Edi Karkaxhiu after moving from Cornwall. • “I think cities offer so many amazing opportunities” • “He’ll get to see and do things that you just wouldn’t if you didn’t live here.” “Ben Karkaxhiu was born at St Thomas’ hospital at 9.30am on Saturday, bringing the number of people living in the capital above 8.615 million for the first time in history” https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2017/jul/03/national-geographic-cities-travel-photographer-year-in-pictures?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

  4. Richard Florida: ‘Megalopolis’

  5. International air connections

  6. UN World Cities report 2016 Economist animation

  7. China: ‘enter the dragon’

  8. Defining a global city • Command points in the organisation of the world economy • Key locations and marketplaces for finance and specialised services • Major sites of production, including innovations • Around 70 worldwide Sassen Cities in a world economy JLL Investment

  9. Location factors Time Tacit knowledge Large amounts of capital, complexity, risk, multiplicity of firms involved contributes to density Financial districts offer multiple opportunities for face-to-face contact: breakfast meetings, lunches, cocktail parties and health clubs. • In financial transactions (stock markets, foreign currency dealing etc) minutes and seconds count • Immediate, simultaneous access to experts most effective way to operate • TIME replaces weight as a force for agglomeration

  10. 175 services 525 cities 0 = no presence 5 = HQ

  11. www.migrationinformation.org/datahub/gcmm.cfm#map3

  12. The challenge of global cities Lagos, Nigeria Douala, Cameroon

  13. Urbanisation and development

  14. Life in 21st Century Cities? • “for many poor nations, urbanisation has little to do with industrialisation, but rather is linked with the creation of jobs in the service sector” Potter 2008 • “we have reached the end of an era of association of urbanisation with Western style industrialisation and socio-economic characteristics” Dwyer )

  15. LIVEABILITY • Stability • Healthcare • Culture and environment • Education • Infrastructure Economist Intelligence Unit liveability rankings 2013

  16. Inequality within cities

  17. Lewanski, C. (2016) Geography 101 (1)

  18. Urbanisation and the environment

  19. Another view of cities China http://wcr.unhabitat.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2016/05/WCR-%20Full-Report-2016.pdf

  20. http://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/urbanization/urban-world-mapping-the-economic-power-of-citieshttp://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/urbanization/urban-world-mapping-the-economic-power-of-cities

  21. Photo: Alan Kinder

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