from The Global City, Northwestern University, Summer 2011, graduate public policy course

1. Circuits/Toronto MPPA-DL 452 Session 3

7. World city network Source: World City Network: A New Metageography?, Beaverstock, Smith and Taylor (2000) Core Semi-periphery World periphery

8. Worldwide flows of digital information, 2004 Source: International Internet bandwidth, accessed at Telegeography (www.telegeography.com)

9. Worldwide passenger flows, 2001 Source: Witlox, Vereecken and Derudder, “Mapping the Global Network Economy on the Basis of Air Passenger Transport Flows”, GaWC Research Bulletin 157, accessed at http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb157.html

10. Top 10 largest city relations, 2001 Source: Witlox, Vereecken and Derudder, “Mapping the Global Network Economy on the Basis of Air Passenger Transport Flows”, GaWC Research Bulletin 157, accessed at http://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/rb/rb157.html Rank Between And Number of passengers 1 Hong Kong Taipei 2 138 608 2 London New York 1 610 404 3 Melbourne Sydney 1 563 106 4 Los Angeles New York 1 534 285 5 Milan Rome 1 534 156 6 Cape Town Johannesburg 1 406 897 7 Amsterdam London 1 242 822 8 Chicago New York 1 161 181 9 Bangkok Hong Kong 1 141 063 10 London Paris 1 064 510

11. “ balanced” vs. “ primate” urban systems How do the shift to services and economic globalization affect balanced and primate urban systems?

16. Friedmann/Wolff – “world city formation” Capital Labor Government

17. Friedmann/Wolff – “world city formation” Capital Labor Government Wages – housing – healthcare – safety – environment - education

18. “ contested space”

19. tokyo

20. toronto

21. new york

22. paris

23. shanghai

24. johannesburg

25. sao paulo

26. caracas

32. Global Remittance Flows, 2006 (US$ millions)

34. Toronto on the world city network Source: World City Network: A New Metageography?, Beaverstock, Smith and Taylor (2000)

36. Where do immigrants settle in Canada? (2007) Source: Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Facts & Figures 2007

37. Europe 1300