Chapter 24 Flashcards
Canada is a _____ nation
Suburban
Canada: More than ____rds live in suburban areas
More than 2/3rds of people live in suburban places
Suburbs are located at…
Periphery of large urban centres and small towns or villages.
Newcomers to cities tend to settle directly into ….
Suburban or exurban areas
Suburbanization mike
The combination of non-central population and economic growth with urban spatial expansion
Suburbanisms
Refer to a growing prevalence of a qualitatively distinct “suburban way of life”.
Emerging modes of heterogenous, non-tradtional ways of living at the urban periphery
Exurbs:
Very low-density rural areas where more than half the workers commute to the central core.
Exurbs distribution and population
People living in exurbs live in rural-estate
subdivisions or along country roads,
- Includes about 8 per cent of metropolitan populations.
Automobile suburbs
- Classic suburban neighbourhoods where almost everybody commutes by car
- little transit use and hardly anyone walks or cycles to work.
- Includes about 67 per cent of metropolitan populations.
Transit suburbs
Neighbourhoods where a higher proportion of people commute by transit, comprising
- Includes about 12 per cent of metropolitan populations.
Active Cores
Downtowns and other neighbourhoods where a higher proportion of people walk or cycle to work.
- Includes about 14% of Canadian metropolitan populations.
How are Canadian suburbs increasingly defined by the immigrant experience?
- New suburban populations are more heterogenous
- Contemporary trends are to move directly to suburbs
- Destabilizes stereotypes of white middle-class nuclear families living in single family homes as the norm
Implications of this new anticipated flow of newcomes into suburban environments
Social problems:
- Poverty, homelessness, food insecurity have become suburban problems
Millennial aspirations to living situations
- Aspire to home ownership, rather than renting
- Prefer buying “ground-related homes” (single homes, semi-detached homes, townhomes”rather than high rise
Suburbs used to be perceived as a space ruled by:
Rational choice
Personal Freedom
Economic Autonomy
Land Ownership
Politics in Urban periphery now deal with
Corporate power
Lack of collective consumption services
Presence of a strong local state
Poverty
“Aggressive suburban regimes”
Politicians are increasingly using their political bases to shift the meaning to metropolitics”
Aggressive suburban regimes have come to power regionally, or federally
Canadian city population growth is in the
suburbs
Post Suburbia looks like
New suburban forms
Most suburban development takes place in a dynamic landscape
More balance between traditional suburban functions and emergent employment and economic activity
New suburban forms
Edge cities
Technoburbs
Suburban downtowns
Ethnoburbs
Most suburban development takes place in a dynamic landscape
Meaning…
It resembles neither the old inner city, nor the glamorous cookie cutter suburbs
Technoburb
Concentrations of high-tech industries in a suburban setting, the outcome of the movement of employment away from central cities permitted by advances in information and communications technology.
Edge cities
Concentrations of employment and retail
located at the fringe of large metropolitan areas in an
otherwise traditionally lower-density suburban area.
Suburbanization book
Non-central population and economic growth occurring in tandem with the spatial expansion of an urban area.