INS 4560, 5560/GEOG 4880-01
Global Cities
Spring, 2015
University of Wyoming
Global and Area Studies/ Geography
Time: Tuesday/Thursday 11:00-12:15
Class room: COE Library 121
Office Hours: TR 12:20-1:20, R 2: 40-3:40 - or by appointment
Yi-Ling Chen
Assistant Professor
Office: Ross Hall 236
E-mail: ychen8@uwyo.edu
Phone: (307) 766-4173
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Globalization accelerates urbanization processes and creates a new type of city, the global city. Now more
than half of the world’s population lives in the cities. Global cities emerge as the key command points in the
world economy. They are the centers of transnational networks that connect economic, demographic and
sociocultural flows. This course will introduce various aspects of global cities, including debates over global
cities, urban culture, new urban landscapes, and social disparity. The class will include case studies on the
cities of the world that aim to explore the diversity of global city formation processes.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
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To understand the importance of cities in human security
To study and understand the important writings and debates on global cities since the 1980s.
To learn how economic transformation and globalization impact on cities around the world.
To compare different strategies of urban redevelopment and successful cases of city planning.
To compare different experiences of cities all over the world. Due to the specialty of the instructor,
case studies in East Asia will be used most often in this course. Students are encouraged to use their
own areas of specialty to initiate conversation and make comparisons.
6. To learn how to conduct research on a city.
REQUIRED READINGS
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Brenner, Neil and Roger Keil (eds.) 2006. The Global City Reader. New York, NY: Routledge.
Other readings will be available either on WyoCourses or given out in class.
Students are also encouraged to sign up for the course Facebook page: Global Cities 2015
https://www.facebook.com/groups/404235033013163/
Please feel free to use it to ask questions, post interesting articles or videos, or to organize study-groups.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS/ASSIGNMENTS
Map quiz of global cities
Arguments for or against mega-projects
Reading papers
Mid-term test
Final presentation and paper
5%
12%
19%
24%
40%
1. Map quiz of global cities (5%) February 10
2. 19 reading papers (19%): Each class requires a short one-page reading paper. These papers compare
and summarize the significance of the assigned readings before each class. The format of the paper will
be discussed in the class, and specific instructions on how to do one can be found on WyoWeb. Each
one is worth one percent for a total of 19 percent of the final grade and will be graded as “outstanding”
(100), “credit” (75) or “no credit” (0).
3. Arguments for or against mega-projects (12%): 1000 words.
4. One mid-term test: April 9. The exam will be essay questions. Study questions will be provided before
the exam.
5. Final research paper and presentation: 15 pages (about 4000 words) May 9. The central topic of the
paper may be a city, a comparison of different cities, an urban problem, or urban projects of cities. The
paper must include end/footnotes (Turabian or Chicago Manual of Style) and a bibliography of at least
ten sources including at least five academic journal articles. This paper is due in four parts:
1) A topic proposal is due on March 3. This proposal will not be graded. However, if you do not
hand one in, five points will be deducted from the final grade of the paper.
2) An outline of the proposed paper with a bibliography is due April 2. Students should make an
appointment to discuss topics and begin work on this project as soon as possible (10% of paper
grade).
3) A 20-minute presentation of your topic in class and a draft of the paper is due on April 30 (15%
of paper grade). In addition, each student will be assigned another student’s draft to critique.
Presentation and critique times will be assigned at a later date.
4) The completed paper is due May 15th by 5 pm. (75% of paper grade.) Please send the paper by
email to ychen8@uwyo.edu.
Please note: Graduate students will have to lead one or two discussions, and write a 5000 word final paper.
Important Websites
Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Loughborough University:
http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/
GRADING AND ATTENDANCE POLICIES
1. Grades will be assigned on the customary basis, i.e., 90-100=A, 80-89=B, 70-79=C, 60-69=D, 59 or
below=F. For more details on grading, please see the information sheet on WyoCourses.
2. No late assignments will be accepted without a valid excuse. They are due on the date listed on the
syllabus. Please turn in a hard copy of the paper in class.
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3. Attending class is required. If you cannot make it for any reason, please let the professor know
beforehand or as soon as possible. In accordance with UW Regulations 6-713, University sponsored
absences are cleared through the Office of Student Life (OSL). Students with official authorized
absences shall be permitted to make up work without penalty in classes missed.
4. Please be sure to turn off cell phones and all electronic devices during class.
5. If you miss three classes without notifying the professor, your final points will be 10 points less.
COURSE OUTLINE
The course and syllabus are subject to change, including the calendar, in order to meet the needs of
students in the course.
Date and
Subject
Readings
Assignment
Due
1st Week
What is city? What is the shape of the city? Where is the boundary?
How does globalization change the concept of city? The ranking of the cities
Jan 27
Introduction of the class
Jan 29
Urbanization and
global cities
Singapore
What is the shape of the city? Where is the boundary?
49. World city topologies (2003) Richard G. Smith (in the reader)
48. Pathways to global city formation: a view from the developmental city-state of
Singapore (2004), Kris Olds and Henry Wai-Chung Yeung (in the reader)
Economic restructuring and the city
Globalization and the city
Reading
paper 1
Editor’s introduction pp. 3-16 (in the reader)
PART 1: Global city formation: Emergence of a concept and research agenda
Introduction
1.The metropolitan explosion (1966) Peter Hall
2.Divisions of space and time in Europe (1984) Fernand Braudel
3.Urban specialization in the world system (1986) Nestor Rodriguez and Joe Feagin
4.Global city formation in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles: an historical
perspective (1999) Janet Abu-Lughod
5.The new international division of labor, multinational corporations, and urban
hierarchy (1981) Robert B. Cohen
6. World city formation: an agenda for research and action (1982) John Friedmann
Reading
paper 2
2nd Week
Feb 3
Theories of
global cities
Feb 5
Part 1:
Global city
formation
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Reading
paper 3
and Goetz Wolff
7. The world city hypothesis (1986) John Friedmann
3rd week
Structures, dynamics and geographies of global city formation
Feb 10
Part 2: Structure,
dynamics, and
geographies
Map Quiz
Feb 12
Amsterdam
PART 2: Structures, dynamics and geographies of global city formation
Editors' introduction
8.Prologue 100-mile cities (1992) Deyan Sudjic
9.Cities and communities in the global economy (1996) Saskia Sassen
10. Locating cities on global circuits (2002) Saskia Sassen
11. World city network: a new metageography? (2000) Jonathan V. Beaverstock,
Richard G. Smith and Peter J. Taylor
12. Global cities and global classes: the peripheralization of labour in New York
City (1983) Robert Ross and Kent Trachte
13. Inequality in global city-regions (2001) Susan Fainstein
Amsterdam
J. Gilderbloom, M. Hanka, and C. Lasley. Amsterdam: planning and
policy for the ideal city? Local Environment, 14(6):473{493, 2009.
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13549830902903799
4th week
The rise of global cities and how it changes the city planning around the world
Case studies of different cities around the world
Feb 17
Part 3: Local
pathways
PART 3: Local pathways of global city formation: Classic and contemporary case
studies
Editors' introduction
15. Prologue: Cities, the informational society and the global economy (1993)
Manuel Castells
16.The city as a landscape of power: London and New York as global financial
capitals (1992) Sharon Zukin
Mega-projects
Feb 19
Detroit
5th week
Feb 24
Bilbao effect
Feb 26
Tokyo
6th Week
March 3
Seoul
March 5
7th week
March 10
Highest buildings
in the world
Taipei
Mega-projects in New York, London and Amsterdam (2008) Susan Fainstein,
International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol 32, Issue 4, 2008
December. Page 768-784.
18.Detroit and Houston: two cities in global perspective (1989) Richard Child Hill
and Joe Feagin
Video: Detropia
Plaza, Beatriz and Silke N. Haarich. (2013) The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao:
Between Regional Embeddedness and Global Networking
20.Global cities and developmental states: New York, Tokyo and Seoul (2000)
Richard Child Hill and June Woo Kim
Sorensen, Andre. 2011. “Uneven Geographies of Vulnerability: Tokyo in the
Twenty-First Century, Pp. 40-66 in Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience.
Ha, Seong-Kyu. 2011. “Seoul as a World City: The challenge of Balanced
Development,” pp. 158-179 in Planning Asian Cities: Risks and Resilience.
How to do research: Informational Session with Coe Research Librarian Mike
Nelson in Coe 218.
Jou, Sue-Ching, Andres Lund Hansen, and Hsin-Ling Wu. 2012. “Chapter 9:
Accumulation by Dispossession and Neoliberal Urban Planning: ‘Landing” the
Mega-Projects in Taipei,” pp. in T. Tasan-Kok. G. Baeten (eds.), Contradictions of
Neoliberal Planning.
https://www.academia.edu/5095322/Accumulation_by_Dispossession_and_Neoliber
al_Urban_Planning_Landing_the_Mega-Projects_in_Taipei
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Reading
paper 4
Reading
paper 5
Reading
paper 6
Reading
paper 7
Reading
paper 8
Reading
paper 9
Reading
paper 10
Final paper
topic due
Reading
paper 11
March 12
Mega-events
Chinese Cities
8th week
Shin, H.B. (2012) Unequal cities of spectacle and mega-events in China. City:
analysis of urban trends, culture, theory, policy, action 16(6): 728-744
9th Week
March 24
PART 4: Globalization, urbanization and uneven spatial development: perspectives
on global city formation in the global south
Editors' Introduction
22. Prologue: A global agora vs. gated city-regions (1995) Riccardo Petrella
23. Building, architecture, and the new international division of labor (1991)
Anthony D. King
24. The world city hypothesis: reflections from the periphery (1995) David Simon
25. 'Fourth world' cities in the global economy: the case of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
(1988) Gavin Shatkin
26. Global and world cities: a view from off the map (2002) Jennifer Robinson
Arguments for or against mega-projects
Part 4: Global
South
Phnom Penh,
Cambodia
March 26
10th Week
March 31
Curitiba
Resilient cities
April 2
Contested cities
Dubai
11th Week
April 7
April 9
Reading
paper 12
Spring Break
Macedo, Joseli. (2013) Planning a Sustainable City: The Making of Curitiba, Brazil
PART 5: Contested cities: state restructuring, local politics and civil society
Editors' Introduction
29. Prologue: The global city as world order (1996) Warren Magnusson
31. World city formation on the Asia-Pacific rim: poverty, 'everyday' forms of civil
society and environmental management (1998) Mike Douglass.
Reading
paper 13
Debate
Paper due
Reading
paper 14
Reading
paper 15
Outline and
Bibliography
Due
Chad Haines. (2011). “Cracks in the Façade: Landscape of hope and desire in
Dubai.” in Worlding Cities.
Review
Mid-term test
Mid-term
test
12th Week
April 14
U.S.
“The Pruitt-Igoe Myth”
Goetz, Edward G. 2012. The Transformation of Social Housing in the US: Neoliberalizing Public Housing
Reading
paper 16
April 16
Representation
and creative
cities
PART 6: Representation, identity and culture in global cities: rethinking the local
and the global
Editors' Introduction
36.Prologue: Towards cosmopolis: a postmodern agenda (2002) Leonie Sandercock
37. The cultural role of world cities (1996) Ulf Hannerz
Reading
paper 17
Kanazawa
13th week
AAG
April 21
April 23
14th Week
April 28
Hong Kong
April 30
Emerging issues
The right to the
Sasaki, Masayuki . (2010) Urban regeneration through cultural creativity and social
inclusion: Rethinking creative city theory through a Japanese case study Cities, v 27,
n SUPPL. 1, p S3-S9, June 2010.
Hong Kong
Chungking Express
Cuba and sustainable community development
‘Hong Kong blue: flanerie with the camera's eye in a phantasmagoric global city’
(2000) Huang TY, Journal of Narrative Theory, 30(3): 385-402.
Reading
paper 18
PART 7: Emerging issues in global cities research: refinements, critiques and new
frontier
Editors' Introduction
43. Prologue: Whose city is it? (1996) Saskia Sassen
Reading
paper 19
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Final paper
city
15th Week
May 5
May 7
May 15
5PM
50. “The Urban Revolution” (1968) Henri Lefebrvre
Harvey, David. 2008. “The Right to the City,” New Left Review 53.
Final Presentation
Final Presentation
Final Paper Due
draft due
Final paper
due
DISABILITY STATEMENT:
If you have a physical, learning, sensory or psychological disability and require accommodations, please let me know as
soon as possible. You will need to register with, and provide documentation of your disability to University Disability
Support Services (UDSS) in SEO, room 330 Knight Hall.
ACADEMIC HONESTY:
The University of Wyoming is built upon a strong foundation of integrity, respect and trust. All members of the
university community have a responsibility to be honest and the right to expect honesty from others. Any form of
academic dishonesty is unacceptable to our community and will not be tolerated [from the UW General Bulletin].
Teachers and students should report suspected violations of standards of academic honesty to the instructor, department
head, or dean. Other University regulations can be found at:
http://uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/legal/universityregulations.htm
UNIREG 802, Revision 2, section 3 defines academic dishonesty as "an act attempted or performed which
misrepresents one's involvement in an academic task in any way, or permits another student to misrepresent the latter's
involvement in an academic task by assisting in the misrepresentation." Among the misdeeds by students that the
University of Wyoming considers acts of academic dishonesty are:
a.
Representing as one's own work material copied or borrowed from any source, written or otherwise, public or
private, without proper citation of the source.
b.
Using a ghostwriter, commercial or otherwise, for any type of assignment.
c.
Doing a class assignment for someone else or allowing someone to copy one's assignment.
d.
Submitting substantially the same work as someone else unless authorized by the instructor.
e.
Using notes or prepared information in an examination unless authorized by the instructor.
f.
Taking an examination for someone else or allowing someone to take an examination for oneself.
g.
Copying from, or assisting, another student during an examination.
h.
Stealing, or otherwise improperly obtaining, copies of an examination before or after its administration.
i.
Submitting substantially the same work for more than one class without the explicit permission of all
concerned instructors.
Regulations concerning plagiarism cover books, magazines, newspapers, movies, Internet sources, and any other
sources of information. Proper citation of sources means identifying in the text of the paper the source of the
information. Simply listing sources on a "bibliography" page at the end of the paper is not adequate for citing sources.
A student with any doubts regarding proper citation of sources should consult his or her instructor.
It is important to remember that you can be charged with academic dishonesty if you assist another student in cheating.
For example, if you permit a classmate to copy from your exam, both you and the student who copied are guilty of
academic dishonesty. Both the ghostwriter and the person who submits a paper prepared by a ghostwriter have violated
University policy and can be penalized.
The University's academic dishonesty policy (UNIREG 802, Revision 4, section 4) authorizes several actions against a
student found to violate the policy:
a.
A grade of "F" is assigned for the course in which the act of academic dishonesty was committed.
b.
The student is suspended from the University for one year if he or she commits two acts of academic
dishonesty at different times or for different courses.
c.
Further sanctions, including loss of scholarships, may also be imposed.
Ignorance of what constitutes plagiarism, how to properly cite sources, or what is appropriate behavior on an
examination is not an acceptable defense against a charge of academic dishonesty. Students who are uncertain as to
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whether a particular act violates the University's academic dishonesty policy should consult their instructor, the head of
the department, their academic advisor, the Office of Student Life, or another appropriate University official.
HOW TO DO A READING PAPER
Reading papers should be approximate one page (single-spaced) long and should help you
understand the significance and difference of the articles. Think of it as a road map to help you see
the significant forest for the insignificant trees. There is no need for this to be in essay form. These
reading papers will aid class discussion and will help you on the exams. Please try to keep them to
one-typed, single-spaced page.
Reading paper #
Thesis: There should be just one or two sentences for each article. Why is the paper an important
article in the literature of global cities? What are the new perspectives the paper contributes to the
research on global cities?
Gist: What is the gist of the article? Summarize its main points.
Telling Examples: (You can choose one of three questions.)
What are some telling examples of the argument?
What are the data or evidences the article uses to support its argument?
What are the useful ideas you can apply to your research?
Comparisons: What are the differences and similarities of these articles? (If there is only one
article, you can compare it with previous articles.)
Critiques: Are you convinced? Why or why not? What is your reaction to the piece?
One Question: Write down a question for the class discussion.
You will be provided with a sample reading paper, which should offer some guidance in preparing
your own.
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