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BY CHARLES SOMERS
Urbanization
Clough articleWith the development
of the information age, New York has lost it’s title as economic capital of America.
AOL’s decision to buy Time Warner Entertainment has the potential to shift power from the west coast back to New York.
Kotkin articles
Over the past 25 years, per capita income, based on purchasing power parity, grew by over 400% in India and a remarkable 1,500% in China.
Brown-gridded livesBillings Montana and
kazakhstan the same place?
The concept of land ownership and management determined shape of both
As much as each other despise the other they are alike
Nugent-the great translantic migrations
Between 1870 and 1914 U.S. takes 23 million immigrants
Most of witch were prospectors of land
Some to earn a wageMost through Ellis
island open between 1892 and 1943
Rybczynski-The city in the land of the dollar
Other countries such as France has beautiful cities
America not traditional in cities
No wonderful squares or centers
Some have tried but failed like Chicago to many people wanting the all mighty dollar
The Urban Legend by KotkinThe human world is
fast becoming an urban worl
denser is betterNot all Global Cities
are created equalEven legitimate
cultural meccas aren't insulated from economic turmoil
Urban Legend contthe size of a city
roughly correlated with its wealth
It turns out that the rise of the megacity is by no means inevitable
a network of smaller cities in the Netherlands has helped create a smartly distributed national economy
Beyond city limitscities rather than states
are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built.
Neither 19th-century balance-of-power politics nor 20th-century power blocs are useful in understanding this new world.