Globalization is an irreversible and a drifting trans-national phenomenon that surpasses governments, national institutions and local societies (Ben Hamouche, 2004). With that in mind, what are its effects on urban development and the built environment? How does it affect the urban morphology?
Globalization may increase the floating population over a land mass, improves the economical strength, changes the morphology by means of construction, networking, industrial establishments; it may collapse the cultural as well as traditional values of that particular area.
In addition to what Mophin said, the effects of globalization on built environment can be evaluated based on the influences of technology on urban morphology. A historical view to these effects can be useful. For instance governments, municipalities, etc. in the global south imported the new transportation technologies such as cars, trams, and so on (which emerged in the western world) to their cities in the first half of the twentieth century. To use these technologies, they had to change their urban form to let cars move through the urban texures. The form of street structures changed, so curvy and narrow routes were replaced by straight and wide streets. In newer circumstances, car dependency transformed the cities hand in hand with urban sprawl in many cities of the developing countries with little governmental control. In a more recent trend, telecommunication technologies like smart phones, apps, etc. affected urban travel behavior which is solely influential on urban form.
Globalization...! This is in a similar way as to the man evolution and more precisely important function of life cycle. The affect of such progress is mandatory on urban environment & the word 'BUILT' in between is a concern of the Local bodies.
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