1. Urban Future 7 DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION WITH CITIES from 1970s to 2020s
Lecture series Nov – Dec 2016
Paula Pennanen-Rebeiro-Hargrave, PhD in Urban Geography

2. 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?

3. 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