GEOG 2P01 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Profit Motive, Landform, Class Stratification
23 Mar 2018
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Last lecture: the street, public space, dangerous space, moral order, policing the streets, police/private security, electronic surveillance, happy cities- video. The city: global populations mainly urban, disconnected from the natural world, focus on size, physical features and social relations, diversity and complexity of social relations. Imagining the city: ktafi and horton (2009, the city" in culture. Toronto city of neighbourhoods: greektown, little portugal, little italy, distillery district. Future cities: dystopian notion of cities, utopian ideas of cities. Historical governance of the city: a. keynsian welfare state, b. neoliberalism, the keynsian welfare state, john maynard keynes. Laissez faire capitalism and socialism": government and stabilization income security; economic security and range of social services. Changing roles of cities: administrative to entrepreneurial, economic restructuring from manufacturing fordist to post-fordist. Sell" their city to attract business: neoliberalism, processes of globalization, changes in urban governance, argues for free market economies, shadow state. The underclass": visible spatial arrangements, explanations for the underclass.
