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Course Info for PBPL - 802 - 01, Fall 2025
Class number: 2854 Title: Global Cities Department: Public Policy & Law
Career: Graduate Component: Seminar Session: Regular
Instructor's Permission Required: No Grading Basis: Regular Units: 1.00
Enrollment limited to 1 Current enrollment: 0 Available seats: 1
Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Mode of Instruction: In Person
Schedule: TR: 10:50AM-12:05PM, LIB - 103 Instructor(s): King, Arianna
Prerequisite(s): None
Distribution Requirement: Meets Global Engagement Requirement
Course Description:
This seminar examines the contemporary map of interactions between cities in the world. There is now a considerable array of research analyzing what are variously termed global or world cities in the hierarchy of the world economy, and a counter-critique has emerged which seeks to analyze all cities as ordinary, moving beyond old binaries of 'developed' and 'developing' worlds of cities. We will interrogate this debate in both its theoretical and its empirical dimensions, with case studies from Africa and assessment of cultural, political, economic and environmental globalization.