Thursday 10th October 2024
‘Intertextuality’: Crossing between different representations, genres and media
The soft city? - a view of the city which is about personal experiences, symbols, images: Brick lane, depictions of London etc.
Key idea: The resources a city uses and its ecological footprint - London and a massive area of land required to support it
The relationship between cities and the natural resources it uses
2006/7 first time 50% of the world’s population live in cities
2050: 68% projected (UN population division 2018)
Population growth 1985-2015= 6,040%
Neil Brenner and Christian Schid on ‘Planetary urbanisation
The creation of new scales of urbanism
The decentring of cities - suburbs and hinterlands
The end of wilderness: No part of nature is unaffected by cities. = Planetary urbanisation
Cities as a new ecosystem of animals such as foxes and rats.
Cities in networks and systems: London:
British Empire and the East Indian company had massive effect on trade: Canary Wharf used to be the centre of all trade coming into England during the 1800s = a load of money
Architecture in London for the 20th century was made to imitate old buildings of importance= give London the idea of importance
The nature of London in the 20th and 21st century was all about establishing the multicultural connections between many countries.
Saskia Sassen: (The global city book)
Cities as a ‘command points’ of the global economy
Cities of power and connection
Global cities - local inequalities
Jennifer Robinson argues:
Our thinking about cities needs to look beyond the ‘usual suspects’ of western global cities, beyond New York, London etc and look towards the ‘ordinary cities’ of an urban planet.
Alternative idea to focus on: Suburbanisation, i.e: Bid rent theory etc.
‘Intertextuality’: Crossing between different representations, genres and media
The soft city? - a view of the city which is about personal experiences, symbols, images: Brick lane, depictions of London etc.
Key idea: The resources a city uses and its ecological footprint - London and a massive area of land required to support it
The relationship between cities and the natural resources it uses
2006/7 first time 50% of the world’s population live in cities
2050: 68% projected (UN population division 2018)
Population growth 1985-2015= 6,040%
Neil Brenner and Christian Schid on ‘Planetary urbanisation
The creation of new scales of urbanism
The decentring of cities - suburbs and hinterlands
The end of wilderness: No part of nature is unaffected by cities. = Planetary urbanisation
Cities as a new ecosystem of animals such as foxes and rats.
Cities in networks and systems: London:
British Empire and the East Indian company had massive effect on trade: Canary Wharf used to be the centre of all trade coming into England during the 1800s = a load of money
Architecture in London for the 20th century was made to imitate old buildings of importance= give London the idea of importance
The nature of London in the 20th and 21st century was all about establishing the multicultural connections between many countries.
Saskia Sassen: (The global city book)
Cities as a ‘command points’ of the global economy
Cities of power and connection
Global cities - local inequalities
Jennifer Robinson argues:
Our thinking about cities needs to look beyond the ‘usual suspects’ of western global cities, beyond New York, London etc and look towards the ‘ordinary cities’ of an urban planet.
Alternative idea to focus on: Suburbanisation, i.e: Bid rent theory etc.
