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How do we begin to understand te diffrences ,commonalities,
and interconnections between 'World Cities' - such as Cairo,
New York, Istanbul or Singapore? This course provides a
ciritical guide to diverse ideas, concepts and frameworks
used to study such cities. It explores how city spaces and
cultures are constituted, divided and contested, by focusing
such topics as: colonial landspaces 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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