GEO 793 Lecture Notes - New Urbanism, Transit City, The Province
10 Nov 2012
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Reconnecting the disconnected: the politics of infrastructure in the in -between city. A growing awareness that governing and experiencing the fabric of the city involves political acts that produce and reproduce the infrastructures of urban regions. The politicization of infrastructure involves the understanding of how infrastructure policies and planning are linked to the co-revolution of cities and technical networks in a global context . Increase significance of these spaces today commands our attention in new and inevitable ways. The forgotten infrastructural polices of the in-between cities implies a de- colonization from the forces that built the glamour zones at both ends of its existence: the urban core and the classical suburb. Lack of infrastructure in the in-between city. More canadians work in the suburban parts of metropolitan areas. Inner cities experience densification of office and condo developments, some of the most dynamic growth areas are literally in-between. Areas of aggressive expansion, for example around suburban york university in.
