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E: Contemporary Urban Geographies Flashcards

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Burgess (1925)

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Concentric Zones
Homgenous city

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Wirth (1938)

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Urbanism as a way of life
- Density
- Social heterogeneity
- Population density

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Park, 1925

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Inequality is natural
Social Darwinisn

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Harvey, 1973

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Cities are where capitalism plays out
Physical spaces of accumulation

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Hall, 1966

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World cities leading the way, not states

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Sassen, 1991

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The Global City
Networks not place
Process not place

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Friedman, 1986

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Global and World Cities
World cities are core economic players

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Sassen, 2015

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Urban takeover
- Small –> large
- Public –> private

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Brenner, 2018

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Planetary urbanism
Everywhere is more urban
Processes

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Gandy, 2014

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“The city, or at least urbanism, is now practicaly everywhere

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Robinson, 2006

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Ordinary Cities
Complexity
Active agency

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Jackson, 1985

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Suburbanism

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Smith, 1996

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Transformation of NYC

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Gilbert, 2007

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Slums are a perjorative phrase that confuses people with place

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Davis, 2006

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Slums
Procarity
Brutality
SAPs
Surplus population

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Seabrook, 2007

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Root causes of urban poverty
- lack of basic services
- Inadequate services
- Informal housing

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Rao, 2006

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Slums are the future

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DeSoto, 2006

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Vicious cycle of poverty without asset accumulation

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Hollis, 2014

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Broken Windows Theory
Formalisation problems

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West, 2018

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Laws of city metabolism

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Chaplin, 1996

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Compares Mumbai to Manchester
- Social integration
- Displacement
- Tech not being used for reform but self interest

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Marr, 2011

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Megacities
Slums more like rural areas than urban

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Vox, 2021

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South African segregation
Strand vs Nonzamo

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Lemanski and Marx, 2015

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Cities cause poverty
- Individualism

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Sattherwaite, 2001

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8 factors that define urban poverty

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Amis, 1995

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Cash reliance causes urban poverty
Commoditisation of life
Exposure to pollution
Irregular and low incomes
Individualisation

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Lambard, 2015

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Informality
- Spatial
- Economic
- Political

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Wratten, 1995

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Commercialisation in the urban casuing urban poverty

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Roy, 2011

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Subaltern urbanism

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Mitlin and Sattherwaite, 2013

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  • causes of urban poverty
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Harris, 1990

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Cities as economies of agglomeration

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Brenner and Keil, 2005

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Cities as global connection nodes

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Strand (SA)

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93% piped water
51% internet
83% white

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Nonzamo (SA)

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49% piped water
24% internet
92% black

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Strand vs Nonzamo

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  • colour of skin determines QOL
  • Blacks in townships
  • Apartheid until 1944
  • Colonised since 1650
  • Historical roots - railways to get diamonds, black communities excluded, native land act 1913 pusged blacked into 8% of land
  • 148 apartheid laws between 1949-71
  • Intergenerational impacts of apartheid
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Mumbai

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  • IMR of 6.3%
  • 1.2m earn less than $0.5 a day
  • 1976 Slum Upgrading Programme by world bank
  • Formalising slumbs may be worse for people
  • 500 acres
  • over the last 30 years people in the Kolius resisdence have switcehd from freshwater fishing to professional occupations
  • Common toilets for 30 rupees per month
  • Toilets unsafe for women
  • Waste management is a problem
  • Congestion
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Detroit

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  • Rustbelt
  • Deindustrialised - GM, Chrisler, Ford
  • Population delcine from 1.5m in 1970 to 680,000 in 2015
  • Av income is $25k, below av of $35k
  • Poverty rate is 38%
  • LE is 69
  • High school graduation rate is 30%
  • 2nd highest murder rate
  • Spiral of decline
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“The urbanisation of capital”

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Harvey, 1985

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“Urban theory without the outside”

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Brenner, 2018

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“The city, or at least the urban, is now practically everywhere”

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Gandy, 2014

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“The urban is not a unit but a process of transformation”

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(Brenner, 2016)

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“In ten short years, what was once an object of luxury and privilidge, the mobile phone, has become a basic neccessity in Africa”

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Paul Kagame

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“No country in the industrial age has ever achieved significant economic growth without industrialisation”

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45
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When Dante wrote of Hell where did he have in mind

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Florence

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Henry Ford quote

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“We shall solve the city by leaving the city”

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2007 UN announcement

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50% of wolrd population lives in cities

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2050 urban prediction (UN, 2003)

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75% urban

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What does Hollis claim

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We are an urban species

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Examples of varying urban expansion

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Jinjiang in China - will grow 26% by 2050
London, UK - will grow 0.7% by 2050

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Hollis overall claim

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Cities are good for us

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What will be the fastest growing urban regions

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Slums

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Defining slum charactaristics

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  • Desperation
  • Without resources
  • Water insecuity
  • Precarity
  • Informal economy
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City size and consumption (Hollis, 2014)

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Cities take more than 2% of earth surface but use 80% of energy

55
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Las Ramblas (Hollis, 2014)

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  • Transformd in 1982
  • Pedestrianisation
  • Model
56
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Why have people migrated to Texas (Hollis, 2014)

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  • 1m migrants in last decade
  • House prices
  • Lower tax
  • Good schools
  • Infrastricture
  • Daily commute
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Key contention between Jacobs and Moses (Hollis, 2014)

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Jacobs hated the top-down, backdoor approaches to city planning—the very approaches that Moses so readily employed. Jacobs fought for the people and, specifically, for the pedestrians; Moses, it was said, favored automobiles over people. And in many cases, his plans completely displaced people

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What did EO Wilsin suggest (Hollis, 2014)

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City is a super organism

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What are cities good for (Hollis, 2014)

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  • weak ties
60
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Funky quote (Hollis, 2014)

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“The city is increasingly an atomosed space, where we lose the tranditional connections with friends and family, these are not replaced by a meal for one, sat in front of Facebook in a studio flat

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Wirth urbanism as a Way of Life

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  • City was a threat to culture
  • City undermined social ties and replaced them with “Impersonal, sueprficial, transistory and segmental relationships”
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What does West suggest

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  • City is more effient as it grows
  • ## A growth of 100% only uses 75% more energy
63
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What is the city - relationships (Hollis, 2014)

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The city is a place of liberty, where we are free to pursue our individual fortunes, but it is also a place that crams many people together, threatening conflict and inequality

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Key problem in cities (Hollis, 2014)

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Inequality

65
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Two types of theoretical cities (Hollis, 2014)

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Hobbesian - strong state centeal planning - beiking, Dubai, Singapore
Lockean - trust is essential - NYC

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Example of urban revival (Hollis, 2014)

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Newark under Cory Booker since 2006
- ran on a ticket of public safety, urban renewal and respect

67
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Example of how infrastructure is important for city function (Hollis, 2014)

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  • Bundestag rebuilt in 1992
  • glass dome above central debating chamber = visiots can look down
  • Transparent from all directions
68
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Ebenezer Howard (Hollis, 2014)

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Garden city
- all the urban advantages but benefit from the qualities of countryside
- First proposed in 1898
- Planned on a concentric grid with a library, town hall, museum, concert hall and hospital gathered in the centre
- More interested in planning than process

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Henri Lefebvre [1970] quote

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“I’ll begin with the following hypothesis: society has become completely urbanized”

70
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What does urban planning often ignore (Hollis, 2014)

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The human element
- The streets, parks and public spaces of the city, the places where people meet, were more important than traffic flow

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Bilbao effect (Hollis, 2014)

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  • 1980
  • transformed under architecture of Frank Gehry with The Guggenheim
  • new investment in transport, airport, subway and improved sanitation and air quality to make the new destination more attractive
  • paid for itself in 7 years
  • $26m in tax rev
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Adam Smith (Hollis, 2014)

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Invisible hand of capitalism
- Competition fuels innovation
- Creativity drives its own virtuous circle

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Santa Clara County, USA (Hollis, 2014)

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60% of scientists born outside US
28% of workforce are Indian

74
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Bangalore (Hollis, 2014)

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  • pop has grown from 1.6m in 1971 to 8.4m in 2014
  • tech
  • fabric of the city is failing to keep up with demand of new economy
75
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What have cities done (Hollis, 2014)

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Specialised
- Hollywood for movies
- Milan for fashion
- Wall Street for banking

76
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iPhone GPN (Hollis, 2014)

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  • Devised in Cupertino, CA
  • Silicon Chip designed by ARM in Cam
  • Chip developed in South Korea
  • Phone handset assembled in a FoxConn factory in Chengdu, China
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Advantages and costs of globalisation (Hollis, 2014)

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World is being divided up in terms of local specilisation, connected through a network that links cities ever closer

78
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How do cities influence human behaviour (Hollis, 2014)

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  • Wealthy cities people walk quicker
  • Trial of 31 cities. 9/top 10 were wealthy
  • When time is money you need to pick up the pace
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What causes slum formation (Hollis, 2014)

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Density

80
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Biggest problem of our age

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Density

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Impact of cities on people (Hollis, 2014)

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  • Encourage creativity
  • Weak ties encourages innovation
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How does city influence behaviour (Hollis, 2014)

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Forces people to adapt
- Urban areas more open and civil as the diversity of community does not nuture divisions but accomodation and politeness

83
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Detroit (Hollis, 2014)

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  • How changing levels of density can impact a city
  • Highland Park built for Ford in 1912 - 170,000 Model Ts per year
  • Expansion in population from 400k in 1910 to 1.7m in 1930
  • 1930 depression reuslted in half workforce laid off and 50% of city in poverty
  • Peak pop of 1.8m in 1950
  • Spools unevenly shared
  • Population declined by 25% between 2000-10
  • Average income half median
  • 25% unemployment in 2009
  • 50% of children in poverty
  • 91,000 buildings empty
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What have planners suggested to rescue Detroit (Hollis, 2014)

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Make it less dense
- Bulldose
- But not just density as sunbelt cities like Phoenix or Houston are less dense

85
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What do slums have (Hollis, 2014)

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Strong communities

86
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Who had an ecological approach to urban life - the city was a place of difference and the environment is key in determining human behaviour (Hollis, 2014)

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  • Robert Park
  • Ernest Burgess
87
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What did the Chicago School see the city as

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The problem

88
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Broken Windows Theory (Hollis, 2014)

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  • Valdalism and broken windows symbolise a don’t care attitude
  • Need to repair broken windows
  • Leads to breakdown of community control
  • Take care of the small stuff and you take care of the big stuff
89
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Putnam 2000 Book

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Bowling Alone
- Society more atomised
- Spend less time talking to each other
- Engage in less leisure activities
- Spend more time watching and less time doing
- Know neighbors less well
- See friends less often

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What does Putnam 2000 calculate

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Television alone is responsible for a 25% drop in social interaction

91
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What have public spaces become (Putnam, 2000)

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Privatised

92
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Anna Minton 2017 quote

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“Who controls the roads and streets is enormously important to how cities function”

93
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Who was the first woman economic to win the Nobel Prize

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Elinor Ostrom in 2009
- researched common pool resources

94
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What does Locke say is at the heart of the city

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Trust

95
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Example of gov no longer trusting citizens

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  • CCTV cameras
  • 500,000 in London
  • Typical person caught on CCTV 300 times per day
96
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Stephen Graham (2016)

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  • Vertical dimentions
  • City itself has become a battleground on the War Against Terror
  • CCTV to watch the emey within
  • “Contemporary warfare takes places in supermarkets, tower blocks, subway tunnels and industrial districts rather than open fields, jungles or deserts”
  • Urban warfare uses techniques from conventional warfare
  • Olympics was militarised costing £553m
  • CCTv and facial reconition software
  • Surface to air missiles on top of council flats near Olympic village
97
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Wealth distributions (Hollis, 2014)

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  • 90% of world wealth held by richest 1%
98
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After 2008 financial crash uneven wealth distribution in UK (Hollis, 2014)

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Top 1% earned 18x average wage - before it was 5.7x

99
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What does the top 1% of US population own (Hollis, 2014)

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22% of economy

100
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Impact of inequality

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  • unequal distribution of opportunities
  • Harder access to housing, healthcare, education and transport
  • Inequality connected to higher crime and murder rates
101
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How have slums emerged in China (Hollis, 2014)

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Hukou System
- Used to restrict movement from countryside to city
- Has created a class of illegal workers in the city
- 200 million live in the city illegally, and thus cannot expect governmetn services, healthcare or education

102
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Cause of 2008 crash (Hollis, 2014)

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  • Subprime market
  • Massive extension of debt
103
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What are houses (Hollis, 2014)

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No longer a home but a speculative commodity that you happened to live in

104
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Example of housing in Ireland

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  • Between 2000-06 house prices in Ireland doubled
  • In 1997 only 4% of loan applications came from unskilled/manual workers; by 2004 it was 12%
105
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How is affordable housing defined (Hollis, 2014)

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  • 80% of market rate
106
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What is Dharavi (Hollis, 2014)

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A well established community

107
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UN Habitat Report 2003

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  • Urban is 50% by 2007
  • In 2001 1/3 of urban population lived in slums and was increasing
108
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Disparities in informality (Hollis, 2014)

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  • In the west 6% of urban population in slums
  • In Mumbai nearer 62%
109
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What could the number of slum dwellers exceed in 2050 (Hollis, 2014)

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2bn

110
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What is the slum not

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A universal phenomena

111
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What is the 5 point definition of a slum given by the UN Habitat Report 2003

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  • Inadequate access to safe water
  • Inadequate access to sanitation
  • Inadequate access to infrastructure
  • Poor structual quality of housing and overcrowding
  • Insecure residential status
112
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What is the slum (Hollis, 2014)

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Part of the city, not apart from it

113
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How should slums be transformed (Hollis, 2014)

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Improved from within

114
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Key issues in slums (Hollis, 2014)

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Gender

115
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Impact of tech on urban

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  • 10% rise in telecommunication penetrtaion results in a 1.5% increase in productivity
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