SOSC 1375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Poor Relief, Progressive Tax, Reasonable Person
2 Dec 2017
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Writing centre guest: (3rd floor of ross centre room 311, book online. Legal, geography or law and space (blomley) Neoliberalism (application of economic market principles to other areas of life. Ideology/cultural assumptions and values based on business and market principles applied to other areas of life) Marcus aurelius; poverty is the mother of crime . Old prejudice: the poor are dangerous who will stoop to criminality if given the opportunity. Anatole france: the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets and to steal bread. Liberal notion of justice that we must all be treated equality before the law. Thinking like a civil engineer (nick blomley articles) Laws regulating the use of space signify the function of space and citizenship- inclusion and exclusions. Think of sidewalks, park benches, public transit, green space, bus shelters, streets and bike lanes.
