Week 7: Global political-economy of cities

Instructions

**** No outside source just evaluate their work/presentation in the lecture video

– It wouldn’t let me upload the week 7 powerpoint instructions, but the professor goes over it on the lectures video called “Week 7 Urban Inequality S21 Tuesday Lecture”

This will be a discussion post based on Group’s #7 work. Think of this as peer review. Did the group use the best data to represent answer the question, or are there other data sources and types that could be used? Provide examples and links. Type a minimum of 200 words

I will post Group #7 assigned work down below:

Group #7 assignment:

Discussion Prompt Question: How does global economic connectivity change a city?

Tuesday:

Smith, David A., and Michael Timberlake, 2001. World City Networks and Hierarchies, 1977-1997: An Empirical Analysis of Global Air Travel Links. American Behavioral Scientist 44, no. 10 (June 2001): 165678.

Data:

3D visualization of global air travel links
https://maps.blueshift.io/air-traffic-globe/

Leffel’s world city network
https://www.kirellbenzi.com/blog/world-economy-data-viz/
https://www.kirellbenzi.com/art/globalization

Global cities economic power and centrality metrics

Global Metro Monitor
https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-metro-monitor-2018/

GaWC
https://www.lboro.ac.uk/gawc/in_visual.html

International Flight Data:
https://www.flightradar24.com/24.24,26.9/4

Week 7 Urban Inequality S21 Tuesday Lecture:
https://youtu.be/-WumTshbzxc

Week 7 Env Soc S21 Thursday Lecture:

https://youtu.be/o6-B3jW-Qvs