GLOBAL CITIES

HUMANITIES

NAME – PRATIK BAPECHA

CLASS – T.Y. BARCH – A

ROLL NO. 01
 In the world cities has been for thousands of year in the centre of civilization.
In the presence of empires kingdom government and cooperation come and go
just a few decades our urban fabric is undergoing a radical transformation
because they have kept watching. Today's wave of mass urbanization is
historically unprecedented in speed and scale today over 1 million people are
added to the global urban population. Our future is set to be urban as the
world's population is increasingly concentrated in urban settlements this
creates new opportunities and new challenges in a fast-changing context rapid
unplanned urban growth. The global economy of exchange not only are people
flocking into cities at the same time our urban centres are becoming integrated
into ever larger and ever denser networks of exchange the way cities are
shaped their scale scope of influence form. The rise of global networks a
myriad of overlapping and intersecting flows of ideas knowledge people money
goods and services link not only major cities and city regions but an increasing
number of diverse places. urban networks are complex systems of people and
technology the constitute are engineered environment over the course of
thousands of years we have gone from the first engineered environments
composed of a few discreet hand tools and small shelters built around the
individual and local community to the complex urban networks. 12,000 years
ago, as few as four million people inhabited the earth nomads that roam the
land following the seasons the first humans being nomadic would have lived
almost completely without fixed technology infrastructure simply using hand
tools and temporary shelters from about 10,000 years ago in response to the
warming climates at the end of the last ice age. throughout history the
evolution of our engineered environment has been directly related to our
knowledge of the natural environment around us for much of human history
our scientific knowledge was very limited in scope and depth the great
expansion of this knowledge that happened during the Scientific. Revolution
laid the foundations for a massive explosion in technological change one of the
hallmarks of the modern era the much deeper understanding of our physical
environment that modern science brought enabled a new level in our
capacities to engineer the natural environment and gave rise to what has come
to be called the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Age was the age of
machines as we tapped into a new energy source technology became alive
evolving into large mechanical systems no longer dependent upon human and
animal energy sources we could develop larger and larger mechanical systems
powered by artificial energy sources instead of technology being built around
people as with the hand tool increasingly people based their work around
machines as they became operators of large industrial machinery that enabled
mass production processes our technology infrastructure became increasingly
defined by mechanized systems that automated physical activities by fuelling
them with artificial energy sources this enabled a new scale to our engineered
environment as urban centres greatly expanded. in the coming decades will
shape the structure of what happens this century and indeed the future of the
relationship between human beings and the planet the current process of
urbanization is nothing less than a fundamental transformation in the human
habitats the indigenous environment of humanity is changing from the natural
environment to the engineered environment at a breath-taking speed in the
space of just a few short Decades. We will remake our environment and the
patterns of organization that shape society and economy in this process we
don't just rebuild the world around us, but urbanization changes us it creates a
new environment new way of thinking new patterns of work of governance of
production and exchange of interaction between people through which we
come to redefine ourselves and our relationship to the natural environment.