How do we begin to understand the differences,
commonalities, and interconnections between
'World Cities' - such as Cairo, New York, Istanbul or
Singapore? This course will provide a critical guide to the
diverse ideas, concepts and frameworks used to
study such cities. It will explore how city spaces
and cultures are constituted, divided and contested,
by focusing such topics as: colonial landscapes of power
and exclusion, modernist projects of urban
renewal and dislocation, 'post-modern' spaces of
spectacle and consumption, ghettoes of affluence and
poverty, ethnic divisions of labor and informal
economies behind the facades of the global capital.
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