The University of San Francisco USF Scholarship: a digital repository @ Gleeson Library | Geschke Center Master's Theses Theses, Dissertations, Capstones and Projects Winter 12-15-2017 Planning Cities, Economically or Communally: A comparative study of Amsterdam and San Francisco Raina Dawn Whittekiend
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[email protected]. Planning Cities Economically or Communally A comparative study of Amsterdam and San Francisco Raina Whittekiend University of San Francisco San Francisco, California December, 2017 Masters of Arts in International Studies Abstract Globalization has spun “community” off its axis. What once defined community is no longer the current state of community. Increased economic transactions have led to the instability of communities that once depended on one another at the local level. These communities are now dependent on systems that do not know nor understand their actors. This lack of relationship between development and subject is witnessed and highly scrutinized in developing countries all over the world and has been intensely researched in academic literature.