Contested concept Flashcards
How does competition play a role in communities?
People compete for best places: for best places to live and for business.
Competition in the form of pricing mechanisms determines land value.
Businesses and people are segregated into different areas in the city
How does ecological dominance play a role in places?
Central businesses can encourage or restrict the development of others. Dominant businesses force out the weak ones.
How does invasion and succession play a role in community?
Certain groups generate conditions in which other groups cannot function
What are the two flaws of Natural communities?
Empirical flaws
Theoretical flaws
What are empirical flaws?
Not replicated elsewhere.
Residential solidarity: does not develop in a patchy way
What are theoretical flaws?
People do not always make rational economic decisions.
Places have symbolic importance which counters rational allocation of land use.
