The class will review debates and present social science models of cities and metropolis to analyse and compare contemporary developments. Beyond the modern metropolis, researchers try to make sense of these large urban areas using a variety of concepts such as the ‘postmetropolis’, ‘global cities’, and ‘global city-regions’. Urbanization is reaching a new high in the contemporary world with the rise of mega cities (beyond 15 million inhabitants) such as Calcutta, Los Angeles, Dhaka, Cairo, Tokyo, New York, Shanghai, Mexico or Seoul. Globalization, Europeanization processes support the rapid developments of cities in different part of the world. The class will review debates and present social science models of cities to analyse and compare contemporary developments. Researchers try to make sense of these large urban areas using a variety of concepts. Urbanization is reaching a new peak in the contemporary world with the rise of mega cities.
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