GEOG 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Asteroid Family, Planned Community, International Trade
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Post-war play: recreation in the suburbs and city. Until the early 1960s toronto"s immigrant population was almost exclusively irish, Expenditure on public recreation began to steadily increase, and a logic of social citizenship with entitlement to services was firmly consolidated. The role of the suburban recreation departments was limited to supporting the efforts of existing groups that were interested in acquiring recrea- tion facilities for their own neighbourhoods. Etobicoke was the proud home to thorncrest village, the first complete planned community in canada. Recreation was considered a commodity that the local state might coordinate to achieve economies of scale, but otherwise should provide only on a residual basis. Council members argued that user fees encouraged responsible use of facilities, and that they represent a just payment system, as individuals who use the services pay the cost. The intensely privatized and familial basis to public recreation provision in the suburbs also had the effect of racializing both recreation and communities.
