Urbanization

New York…the unrivaled

capital?

Erie Canal

West coast meets East coast

• Telephone• Television• Motion

pictures

• Silicon Valley: Cisco Systems, Intel, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Microsoft

• Yahoo.com• Amazon.com

The Rise of Great and Greater CitiesShanghai

Moscow

India: Mumbai,Bangalore,and Hyderabad

Beijing

Brazil: Sao Paulo

Dubai

Tokyo

London

Paris

The United States:New York, Chicago,

and Los Angeles

Seoul, Singapore,and Hong Kong

Manifest Destiny

• During 1800s until the 1900s pioneers were heading West to the new land.

• The white settlers were surprised to see “settlers” already inhabiting the land…Indians!

• In 1830, the US gov’t decided to confine the Indians to reservations.

• Indians that were unrelenting to move or adapt (assimilation) were slaughtered.

CONQUERING the WEST

Between 1870 and 1914 the United States began to receive the largest amount of foreigners it had ever received…over 23 million!!!

The Great Transatlantic Migrations

Italian

Irish

German

Negro America?• Post WWI brought hope to Black

America with the promise of sharecropping: a system of agriculture in which a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crop produced on the land (e.g., 50% of the crop).

• Post war efforts were thwarted by white America who saw the changes as a threat. This began a period of segregation and violence as blacks fought back.

• The Garvey Movement: An urge to convince those of African descent to move back to Africa; led by Marcus Garvey Jr.

Marcus Mosiah Garvey

RACE RIOTS of 1917 - 19

sharecropping

Foreign Policy• 100 cities account for 30% of the world’s economy, and almost all of its

innovation!

• A new category of “mega city” is emerging around the world…the “knowledge city!”

• “knowledge city”: A city that has been purposefully designed to encourage the nurturing of collective knowledge.

• Knowledge cities: London, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai, Moscow, India, Beijing, Brazil, Tokyo, Seoul

Foreign Policy

Where next for Uncle Sam?