And there will be also about a billion people, new billion urbanized folk around the world that were not urbanized before. For the first time in the history of the world, more than 50 percent of the people living on our planet now live in urban areas. So those two factors, urbanization, rapid urbanization, and rapid entry into the middle class are going to cause, again, a higher plateau of food and commodity pricing with scarcity. – Muhtar Kent (Chairman and CEO of the Coca-Cola Co.) Excerpt from a conversation on the Charlie Rose Show, Tuesday, June 9, 2009.
The modern age is the urbanization of the countryside, not ruralization of the city as in antiquity. – Karl Marx, The Grundrisse
I’m getting ready to teach some courses coming up and to do so, I started to prepare a working bibliography on globalization and cities. Thought I’d share it, but with the caveat that it is, as anything about globalization and cities would be, incomplete. I will be adding more books soon and I am also in the process of adding many more journal articles. A section or future post will also be specifically for other resources, including websites and movies. Take the jump for the whole list. Continue reading
