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