Urban Future 7 DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION WITH CITIES from 1970s to 2020s Lecture series Nov – Dec 2016 Paula Pennanen-Rebeiro-Hargrave, PhD in Urban Geography
Productive Transformative Policies & the City Friedmann (2006): 10 ICT-driven structural “flatteners” lead to more equal distribution of world economy (overcoming the lead role of great cities?) Has this happened, to what extent? - If not, why? - Do you see a specific role for cities as social, economic & spatial construction in this?
Nairobi’s ICT-driven economy Mobile banking: financial opportunities for urban fringe and rural populations Nairobi City Council inactive Vietnam: case of SE Asian countries with high rural population 67 % in 2013 HCMC’s active spatial & economic export policies; science, technology, services followed HCMCity’s FDIs