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Overview • Setting up the general issue • A closer look at readings • A closer look at some key themes and implications Conceptualising changing relations between time and space • Time and space mutually defining: e.g. the ‘speed of light’, and ‘light years’. • The ‘world is shrinking’, the ‘global village’, etc. • Held et. al (1999): ‘extensity, intensity, velocity, deepening impact’. • D. Harvey (1989): ‘time-space compression’ (from ‘Fordism’ to ‘flexible accumulation’) • Ubiquitous descriptive terms. How do we get from these to ‘ex nation’? To ‘causality’? Conceptualising changing relations between time and space Eastern US 1800 48 hr ‘proximity’to 50,000+ cities Readings: Cas ls (2010) • An urban sociologist. In short: electronic communication has altered the way cities are connected and in ct (techno-deterministic?). • In particular, informationally integrated but geographically dispersed processes of production (note corresponding patterns in retail/consumption: Amazon). Readings: Cas ls (2010) • The ‘space of ce’ vs. the ‘space of flows’. • The 3 ‘layers’ of the ‘space of flows’: – Circuit of electronic exchanges – Nodes hubs (cities, corporations…) – Spatial organisation of the dominant, managerial elite (ultima y…he’s an elite theorist?) • ‘Self-contained ces’ still exist, and can perhaps be the basis of ‘ ’ to elites that inhabit the ‘space of flows’? Readings: Sassen (2004) • In a sense picks up where Cas ls left off—local actors in global politics. • ‘The city is a far more concrete spac