URST 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Pierre De Coubertin, Affordable Housing, Triple Bottom Line
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Imaginative cities: vancouver as an "image creation machine" The theory of the city-as-a-growth machine emphasizes the interplay between political struggles between and within cities. Logic is simple --> next year, the economy will produce a certain number of new jobs, new residents, and new investments. In the industrial age, city growth machines competed for factory jobs. Smokestack chasing: when cities promote certain locations (by providing incentives) to potential employers, so that they are more likely to situate their operations in their city --> leads to more economic growth. But as manufacturing jobs disappear due to automation and reorganization of the global assembly line," cities compete for various. "post industrial activities", i. e. travel and tourism have become increasingly important, and so have various events that cities compete for the right to serve as. Meetings of diplomats, trade negotiations, and other international organizations. The olympic games are the largest of a category called hallmark events" (events of international status)
