PLAN100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Common Sense Revolution, Rob Ford, Toronto City
20 Mar 2016
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The changing political-economic context of urban governance: the shift from local to regional. Created conflict based on how to address growth, infrastructure issues: how was growth supposed to occur, spending priorities: car oriented, transit focused, still exists today: see toronto"s war on the car, transformations. End of keynesian welfare state ended distribution of economic growth: economic downtown in 1970s made people push for change, resulted in de-regulation and globalization of markets. Neo-liberalization forced transformation to market driven government: cities had to compromise on taxes in order to remain competitive, relax regulations to ensure growth, allowed for competition for business between regions and cities, how. Toronto grew: created idea for government to support growth centers while other places languished, (creative) destruction. Two phases to neo-liberalization: roll back - program cuts of 1980"s, reducing size of government, allowed funding of tax cuts to increase competitiveness, roll out - consolidation of regulatory mechanisms and roll-out during.
