GEOG 1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Sustainable Development Goals, Features New To Windows 8, Multinational Corporation
7 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
GEOG 1410
January 4, 2018
Open/Bounded Cities
New Urban Agenda
● Can we think of Cities as tools for development?
● Urban Sprawl
● Sustainable Development Goal 11
● What does development mean?
○ Extraction of resources at the expense of other communities?
● Five main areas
○ National Urban Policy
○ Urban Legislation Rules and Regulation
○ Urban Planning and Design
○ Urban Economy and Municipal Finance
○ Local Physical Implementation
● Redevelopment in a Capitalist Society. Those are power relations you have to
keep in mind.
The Quito Papers: Toward an Open City
● What are the central discussions that need to be considered for Open Cities?
● “The place where you find what you are not looking for”
● Where groups interact
● Design in term of governance, not just the built form
● What is the right to the city?
● How do we resist privatization?
● How do we create an equitable city?
● Making the city as a machine
○ The street was ruined in that process and the sense of cohesion
● We design cities to be closed
● Sustainability, Social Cohesion, and Integration should be taken into account
● Who owns the city?
○ Those without power can say this is our city
○ How do we give it back to different constituents?
● The provision of public land
● Protect the public realm as something that belongs to the public
● Under capitalism we’ve lost the notion that the public belongs to the public
● Logics of extraction
● The public realm cannot be reduced to something that is profitable
● Do we need a multinational corporation for a cup of coffee?
● Turn Private sectors into public sectors
● Enable a better distribution of the wealth produced
Document Summary
Those are power relations you have to keep in mind. The place where you find what you are not looking for . Design in term of governance, not just the built form. The street was ruined in that process and the sense of cohesion. Sustainability, social cohesion, and integration should be taken into account. Those without power can say this is our city. Protect the public realm as something that belongs to the public. Under capitalism we"ve lost the notion that the public belongs to the public. The public realm cannot be reduced to something that is profitable. Enable a better distribution of the wealth produced. The top 1% was created by legislation. Design and quality - how you keep a place alive. Land uses are not singular, but can be used. Power relations - who owns the city - a socially just city. Questions of discourse - who controls the discussions, the media"s role.
