Culture and Globalization

Week 5: Space & Place I

Wednesday, September 26

What are ways that urban spaces reflect the economic structures of globalization? In what ways might cities make those economics possible?

Required Readings

David Harvey, “Flexible Accumulation through Urbanization: Reflections on ‘Post-Modernism’ in the American City”

Saskia Sassen, “When the City Itself Becomes a Technology of War”

Saskia Sassen, “Going Beyond the National State in the USA”

Stephen A. Crockett Jr., “The Brixton: It’s new, happening and another example of African-American historical ‘swagger-jacking’”

Christopher Bentley, “Can the Centers Hold?”

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