Assignment Instructions/ Description
Urban Affairs
Paper #2: Due Friday, 3-16-18
(Word), 3-page minimum, double-spaced, paginated, cover page.
Essay Background
We have been investigating, from a political economy perspective, how cities in the United States have grown and developed as a result of capitalist arrangements from capitalism’s mercantile roots to the present post-industrial economy based on neoliberalism and globalization. Along with the readings and supplemental PowerPoint notes (mainly from the beginning of the course), we have recently viewed Plutocracy II: Solidarity Forever and an assortment of recommended videos related to political economy themes.
One of the two mandatory videos, Hungry for Profit, explains how and why a mass exodus of rural agricultural workers in developing countries circa 1980s resulted in increased poverty in those same developing countries. The point: cities all over the world are being impacted by natural and human disasters translating into the depletion of scarce resources for urban settings. This has reached a crisis level. For example, four hurricanes in Texas, Florida, Puerto Rico, Latin America and the mass migration of marginalized persons from developing countries to developed countries in the United States, Western Europe, Australia, etc. Where is the accountability regarding resources for these problems? This is a huge problem that cities and mayors must address more than ever.[1]
Writing Instructions
Provide a brief discussion of the “city and metropolis in the global era”. In your discussion include the following:
1. Urban politics in a time of change and how this change has impacted New and Old Growth politics.
2. The art of urban governance and the politics of the patchwork metropolis and how this relates to …
3. How neoliberal capitalist development, via the Green Revolution, created greater poverty and displacement in developing countries and its impact on urban settings (Ernst Feder, economist).
4. Possible solutions to the increased poverty in developing countries and its impact on urban settings in the United States and other developing countries.
Required Videos
(1)YouTube Plutocracy II: Solidarity Forever
(2)
Hungry for ProfitPBS Video
New Day Filmswww.kanopystreaming.com/product/hungry-profit.
· Dennis Judd and Todd Swanstrom, City Politics: The Political Economy of Urban America, 9th Edition, 2015 (Pearson: 978-0-205996391).
o Chapters 10-14
· Myron Levine, Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Urban Studies, 2013 (McGraw-Hill:978-0-078050435).
o Issues 6-10
[1]See the Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative ODID, Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, 2017, www.ophi.org.uk.
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