After mid-term Flashcards
The space of places
Physical world where people live their day-to-day lives
The space of flows
Where increasingly city life and the work of the new global economy is conducted
The space of flows
Castells - Where increasingly city life and the work of the new global economy is conducted
Mobility
Stout - Not just moving in and out or around the physical space of cities - but exploring and utilizing ‘the space of flows’ of the world city (network)
Stone
How internal features of a governing arrangement fit together to persue an agenda
Atlanta
Stone - Biracial coalition of governamental and white non-governmental (economic) actors governed
Governance emperical meaning
Form government to governance. From state to private-public-civil society
Governance analytical meaning
The process of coodinating actors, social groups, and institutions to attain particular goals discussed and defined collectively in fragmented, uncertain environments
Neoliberalism
- Government taking a step back and let the market do its thing
- ‘A theory of political economic practices that proposed that human well-being can be best advances by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterised by strong private property rights, free market and free trade
Classic liberalism
Reaching society’s best interest through:
- Individual freedom
- Unfetted market
- Non-interventionist state, exept pretect individual rights, libetry and property
Neoliberal ideology
- Market ensures that everyone gets what they deserve
- Individual citizren are seen as active subjects responsible for enhancing their own well-being
- Anything that isn’t privatised, isn’t effective
Neoliberal shift
- Financial cutbacks in central government transfers
- Shift to more business-like practices
- Public-private partnerships
Ladder of citizen participation
Arnstein
Nonparticipation - Manipulation and Therapy
Tokenism - Informing, consultation, Placation
Citizen power - Partnership, Delegated power
Arnstein
Favours empowering individuals and communities by involving them directly in planning and decision making - They are the real experts
Davidoff
favours skilled proffesionals advocating on bahalf of powerless clients - serve client
Equity planning
Seeks faireness or equity among different social groups as the overactig goal of every plan
Forester
Planner serves public interest - focus on skills and roles for conflict solving
Right to the city
People who feel excluded should strive for the collective right to shape everything about the city
Accumulation by dispossesion
Creative destruction hurts the poor and allows the rich to profit even during the next boom
Right to the city - reaction Wirth, Madanipour, Jacobs
Wirth - right to the city is a response of alienation
Madanipour - Parallels to the nature of exclusion of some groups in the city
Jacobs - Celebrates the quality of low income urban neighbourhoods because of rich cultural diversity
Madanipour
Multiple dimensions of social exclusion - in cities and the past
Dimensions of social exclusion
Economic exclusion - Lack of decent income, unemployed, trapped in low-income jobs
Political exclusion - Denied access to power, voting
Cultural exclusion - Based on language, religion, ethnicity
Growth Machines
Molotch - Economic growth oriented coalitions that dominate decision making
- controlled by elite group - business leaders, propperty owners
- Members of the growth machine have different priorities but all want to foster a good business climate that retains and attracts business
Space
A fundamental dimension that ‘expresses’ urban society