The document discusses several articles about cities and globalization. It summarizes key points from each article. The articles discuss how New York has maintained power on the East Coast through strategic mergers and control of infrastructure. They also discuss how Washington D.C. has gained financial power from Wall Street's decline. Additionally, the articles examine the similarities between post-Soviet Russian and Midwestern American towns, and how mass migrations have impacted urbanization in places like 19th century Chicago and cities across America.
2. Clough Article
“Merger…”
1. With New yorks purchase of the
worlds leading internet company
it hopes to overpower its East
coast competition with its control
as the leading media
entertainment company and now
including the internet
community.
2. The Key to New York being the
power house of the East coast are
the politicians who were able to
envision future advantages that
New York would need such as
the Erie Canal.
3. The Birth place of todays modern
innovations such as the telephone
motion pictures ect. Kept it ahead
of the game against its neighbors.
4. This with the nearly total control
of cross trading unless something
drastic happens New York will
continue to be the power house it
is today.
3. Kotkin “Rome vs.
Gotham”
1. New Romanism, In which all
power and decisions devolve
down to the imperial core.
2. Washington’s, minimal lose to
the job sector and gain in
technological field jobs through
the recession unlike the rest of
the country allows it to stay
ahead of the game in revenue.
3. With wall Streets crash in the
depression Washington has
gained in picking up the slack
and gaining control over the
financial power in the Fed.
Treasury.
4. With the unprecedented grow
and the vigor of a new president
since 2008. The Fed. Gov. has
been determined to gain ground
on the top spot of financial power
that new York has over the East
coast.
4. Gridded Lives
1. The urbanization from half a
world away are relative to each
other.
2. The similarities of post soviet
Russia and the American mid-
West towns have uncanny
similarities.
3. Industrial institutions such as
the railroads design the lives
and towns of both peoples to
fit their needs.
4. The land continued to be
divided up and distributed
according to the whims of the
industries that came to develop
up and around the towns that
were started there by the early
pioneers.
5. The great transatlantic
migrations
1. People that migrate from one
geographical location do so
with the changing of seasons or
with the possibility of short
term jobs when available.
2. Migrations from third world
countries into industrial
countries such as America
were not uncommon and these
immigrants were used to build
the industry.
3. Immigrants from Europe were
the majority in concerns to the
shear amount of people
coming into the country.
4. People searching to earn land
were migrating to the west
from the east coast in record
numbers from places such as
south America and the like.
6. The City in the land of
the dollar
1. Chicago, the center of industry
and technological innovations
in the 19 century .
2. The high contrast between the
upper and lower classes can be
seen clearly from Chicago,
getting a clear view of the
connections from the upper to
the lower classes.
3. The Cities of America are
unlike any in the rest of the
world for the most part, since
in relation to most everywhere
else America is still very
young.
7. Foreign policy Issues
1.Already the rest of the world is
growing at a rapid rate unheard of
in the last century.
2. With the worlds top ten cities
growing and changing only three
American cites make it in.
3. With New York, Chicago and
Los Angeles being our only three
cities to make it in.
4. While Europe has only been
able to take in two spots with
London and France. While Asia
and the pacific have the other five
leading with Tokyo, Hong Kong,
Singapore, Sydney and Seol.
Though most of the global cities are
still young in their respective fields
there are still some that clearly
stand out from the rest.
8. The true Global Cities
1. New York Tokyo and Paris
Lead in what most matters in
being called a major city.
2. Starting in New York each city
has its own specialization for
being a Global City.
3. With New Yorks Control over
Capitalization, Tokyo’s
Fortune 500 companies and
London’s tourist industry they
stand on top.
4. Since the Decision of what a
Makes a major city is not
decided by their size It is
because of their ability to
influence the world outside
their borders that in most
important here.
9. Qualifications For a
global city and Bases for
Future Cities
1. The information was taken
from over 60 cities from
around the world totals over a
million people.
2. They were judged on
Business, Human captain and
info exchange, Political Exp.
and political engagement.
3. Ranging from how many
fortune 500 companies are
stationed in each city around
the world factoring in the flow
of goods in and out of each
city.
4. Along with the public sectors
activity and facilities to nurture
its people with knowledge and
understanding of the world
around them.
