CITB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Main Source, Affordable Housing, Global City
CITB04 – Lecture 2: What is a ‘city’ and what are its powers?
Why do we have a local government?
- Housing and social services
- Infrastructure
- Create by-laws
- Create accessible services transportation
- Improving parks
- Sharing intergovernmental aspects with other authorities that are very important (national)
Rationales for Local Government:
-Localized government:
oThe government that is the closest to the people, should be the one making the rules
oSets boundaries; meant to capture certain communities
oMake decisions that the population want
-Administer local services
oRun local decisions efficiently
oRun services that we NEED to survive
Water
oWhen making decisions about a community, people that are a part of the community
should be involved
- Dual role as to what municipal governments to
- Why we need a municipality: We have local services that need to be delivered
- Rational decisions are not being made, but are driven by politics
- Take these 2 rationales how could these rationales be justified by the example given
Can 2 diff views of local government be rationalized?
- as service providers + as localized governments = as democratic service providers
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Document Summary
Sharing intergovernmental aspects with other authorities that are very important (national) Localized government: the government that is the closest to the people, should be the one making the rules, sets boundaries; meant to capture certain communities, make decisions that the population want. Administer local services: run local decisions efficiently, run services that we need to survive. Water: when making decisions about a community, people that are a part of the community should be involved. Dual role as to what municipal governments to. Why we need a municipality: we have local services that need to be delivered. Rational decisions are not being made, but are driven by politics. Take these 2 rationales how could these rationales be justified by the example given. Can 2 diff views of local government be rationalized? as service providers + as localized governments = as democratic service providers. Maybe there aren"t enough standards one hand, the localized government how lots of power vs. limited power.
