Lecture I.
Metropolitan Functions of World Cities. Historical review.
1. Ancient Mykenes and their monopoly on bronze trade and production
Republic of Venice and Rebublic of Genova - an examples of Medieval economic and financial powers built on the base of wide range of overseas trade. Main points of exchange between Europe and India and China.
Development of production of imported goods substitutions like china, cotton, kashmir shawls, silk.
Brugge, Antwerp, - the main financial centres of the world trade in XVI c., growing power of London and England (connection with Industrial Revolution trade with colonies).
Actual the greatest World Cities - London, New York and Tokyo. Economic base of their power, connections with economy of the whole country and overseas trade.
Factors of gobalization. The most important actual functions of the World Cities.
Books and articles:
H.H. McCarty, J.B. Lindberg, 1966, A preface to economic geography, Englewood Cliffs,
Prentice Hall
E. Jones, Metropolis, 1990,
P. Knox, J. Agnew, 1989, The Geography of the World-Economy,
Edward Arnold, London, New York, Melbourne, Auckland
S.Sassen
P. Hall
Lecture II
Theories of Location.
H. Thünen and his circles; location of agriculure production
A. Weber - his main observation and rules in industry location
W. Christaller's central place theory based on services location and feed-back connections between towns and their outskirts.
Economic base theory and functional structure of the cities, measurements methods
Location factors of traditional industry
Soft and hard location factors
W. Christaller, 1966, Central places in southern Germany, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice Hall
E. Hoover, Location of economic activity,
W. Alonso, Location Theory [in:] L. Needleman (red.) Regional Analysis, Penguin Books,
London 1968
Lecture III
Geography of Industry
Review of industry development
Industrial Revlution in England 1760 - 1830; innovations in textile machinery, first steam engines, development of industrial productivity, development of inland water system in England
Development of overseas trade (colonies)
Changes in iron production - spatial shift to the coal mines regions
- development of transport systems - railways
Textile and iron production in England as a base elements of the first industrial power of the world
The second industrial revolution 1870 - 1914
Concentration of industry creating industrial centres and regions
Development of road system and its influence on industry distribution.
Crisis of the traditional heavy industry in 20 c.
dezindustrialization and unemployment.; changes in the economy of the most developed countries.; reindustrialization
state interventionizm
HT - the development of the HT industries in:
USA
Silicon Valley
Route 128 Boston
Research Trialgle Park, North Carolina
France
- Sophia Antipolis
Paris South
Touluse
Montpellier
Villeneuve d'Asc
Great Britain
Silicon Fen
Silicon Gorge
Corridor M-4
Location factors of HT industries
Special Economic Zones in Poland
Distribution of main natural resources in the world (crude oil, gas, coal, iron, copper, gold etc.)
Main industrial regions in the world
Energy crisis 1974 and its impact on economy of the developed countries
Bibliography:
1. Wieloński
Keeeble D., De-industrialization means unemployment, Geographical Mag., April 1981
Benko G., Dunford M., 1991, Idustrial change and regional development: the
transformation of new industrial spaces, London, New York, Belhaven Press
Lecture IV
Geography of transport & communication
The role of transport and communication in the economy
development of different types of transport - inland water transport (especially in England), first railway lines, macadam roads, first asphalt roads, motorways
The most interestng canals in the world:
Suez Canal
Panama Canal
Corinth Canal
Erie Canal
The role of overseas transport in the economy development
The positive and negative features of different types of transport (costs, speed, capacity and ecological criteria)
The impact of different types of communication on spatial distribution of production, settlement network and inside structure of urban areas.
Fordism and Post-fordism
Different sizes of containers (ships, trains, lorries, bargues)
modern ships (ro-ro, ferries, great tankers), container ports and the greatest sea ports. The role of the graetest ports in the world economy (London, New York, Tokyo, Hong-Kong, Singapore, Rotterdam, Hamburg,)
modern trains and train lines: TGV - France, network of TGV in Europe Shinkansen -Japan, Maglev - China
the greatest airports of the world; their influence on the economy of the region
air communication
junctions of communication
Tube transport
Passenger transport in the urban areas. City polices
Passenger transport and the tourizm development; dynamic growth of number of passengers, hotels, travels
E.J. Taffe, Gauthier H.L. 1973, Geography of Transportation, Prentice Hall, Englewood
Cliffs
Lecture V and VI
Geography of settlements
Shape of towns in ancient era
Medieval towns and their features
Towns of Renaissance; first “ideal cities”
Industrial towns; great impact of industry on their growth and density of population. Quality of life in industrial towns.
E. Howard and his Garden Cities concept; examples in England and Poland
Athens Card, Le Corbusier and CIAM Congresses; ideas of functions separation and their influence on the shape of cities in Europe; great housing estates.
different models of inside spatial structure of cities (Burgess, Hoyt, Harris-Ullmann conceptions)
urban sprawl and the environment protection
Urbanization process. Different types and phases of urbanization depended on the economic development
Level of urbanization of different continents and their variety. The most urbanized countries and the reasons of this process.
D. Clark, Urban world/Global city, Routledge, London and New York, 1996
B.J.Garner, Models of Urban Geography, Methuen, London, 1967
H.J. Dunning (ed.) Regions, Globalization and knowledge based Economy, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000.
R. Paddison, (ed.) Handbook of Urban Studies, SAGE publications, London-Thousand
Oaks, New Delhi 2001
Lecture VII
Geography of population
J. Overbeeek (ed.), The evolution of Population Theory. Greenwood Press, Westport-
London, 1977
World Population Prospects. The 2000 Revision, United Nations, New York 2002
D.J. van de Kaa, Europe and its population: the long view, [w:] D.J. van de Kaa, H.
Leridon, G. Gesano, M. Okólski, European Populations Unity in Diversity, Kluver Academic Publishers, Dordrecht-Boston-London 1999,
J.I. Clarke, Ludność ziemi,
J. Bongaarts, T.K. Burch, K.W. Wachter (red.), Family Demography Methods and their
Application, Clarendon Press, Oxford 1984,
6. International demographical dictionary. Wielojęzyczny słownik demograficzny, Wersja
polska, PWE, Warszawa, 1966
Lecture VIII
Geography of Services
Classifications of services
Range of services and their spatial distribution in the country (Christaller's Theory)
hierarchy of towns based on set of services
the role of services in the economy of the countries on different level of development
Tendencies of services development and specialization. Globalization of services.
Location of services in the city space (CBDs, banks, newspapers, administration, TV, culture,)
Lecture IX and X
Inequalities of development
Lecture XI
Geography of world trade and other base economic terms
Stiglitz, Joseph E., Globalization and its Discontents, 2002, W.W. Norton & Co.