ANTH 4701 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Urban Agriculture, Urban History, Multinational Corporation
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Theoretical approach es to the city, anth 4701, fall 2018. Required source: july boys, detropia, what do they make i n bangalore by glaes er, Introducing urban an thropology 1st editi on by rivke jaffe, a nouk de koning. Impossible to keep everyone happy in the city: urban planners pick the profiteers when planning the city. Laws between those producing food and the specialists: modern/industrial-capitalist/planned city, manufacturing, industrial, highways/train tracks dividing populations, rich no longer need to see the poor, colonialism. Post-modern/informational/neoliberal city: computers (cid:862)i(cid:374)e(cid:395)uality has (cid:271)e(cid:272)o(cid:373)e glo(cid:271)alized(cid:863, more aware of inequality, displace it to a different country/place. Detropia (detroit: outsourcing - moving plant to mexico, displacing the labor, offshoring - when displacement goes outside national boundaries, de-industrialization, downsizing - corporate term, moving people closer to the city. Farming to factory to manufacturing to computers: urban gardening. Back to the city, urban renewal, gentrification: increase in young residents moving to downtown detroit.
