Our first 102 reading assignment, by George Orwell, dates back to 1933, but a Harper's article by Mike Davis connects the rise of mega-cities, slums, and global urban poverty directly to the policies and forces of globalization.
Download the slums handout (Word doc) with brief quotes from this article.
For a good source of international journalism, with heaps of articles and on-line debates about this and other topics relating to globalization, see OpenDemocracy.net.
Also, download a sum of the City Colleges of Chicago "Vision 2011" mission as a PDF document, to see how the district is "raising standards" and promoting "global citizenship."
Posted by Benjamin at January 27, 2009 04:53 PM