SOSC 1731 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Compact City, Technological Determinism, Utopia

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1731
• Professor: Peggy Keall

Document Summary

Part 1: urban studies, theoretical perspectives & telematics. Change is result of change in technology. How city is structured based off technology is has available. Change due is technology is great! better quality of life. Technological innovation is just for capital, not for improvement. Society shapes how technology is adopter of rejected in our lives. Prior nature of cit the his. context which conditions current decision making. The built environment of an urban place is only the physical expression of a very complex web of interrelated processes that are constantly changing. These processes include physical, economic, and social-political dimensions. Always changing, complex, dynamic, understand how they work = plan more effectively. Displacement: innovation in urban places = strain on society as it forced to adapt to change. Primary economic activities: mining (not in urban place) Secondary economic activites: (where its made)- automobile construction. Tertiary economic activities: retail (service sector firms) - automobile stores.