Lecture 4: Characteristics of The Capitalist City

Question 1

Harvey

Answer 1

(2014)

Exit from one crisis to the next, they are linked

Question 2

Peck

Answer 2

(2012)
Austerity and privatization depict the changing role of the state, as capitalism changes and moves, in providing key social services

Question 3

Wacquant

Answer 3

(2012)

State, market, citizenship. Neoloberalism harnesses the first to stamp the second on the third

Question 4

Donald et. al

Answer 4

(2014)

Local government have become victims and instigators of new austerity

Question 5

Dorking

Answer 5

(2014)

argues that the 1% is getting richer and crucially becoming urbanised

Question 6

Florida

Answer 6

(2002)

Billionaires help catalyse the service sector

Question 7

Piketty

Answer 7

(2013)

Wealth inequality is part of the capitalist system

Question 8

Banks and Hesmondalgh

Answer 8

(2009)

Zero Hour contracts, unpaid internships

Question 9

Mould et al

Answer 9

(2014)

low paid freelancing

Question 10

DIY Urbanism

Answer 10

Mould 2014

communities taking it upon themselves to create urban spaces

Question 11

Wainright

Answer 11

(2014)
Should we be retreating behind bigger barriers or should we be learning to adapt our cities to work with these new conditions

Question 12

Slater

Answer 12

(2014)

Resilience is imposed upon the marginalised, and those that can be dislocated

Question 13

Defensible Space Theory

Answer 13

Newman, 1972

Creating spaces to help deter crime and anti-social behaviour - benches

Question 14

Graham

Answer 14

(2013)

Militarised urban infrastructures to fight against the stateless insurgency

Question 15

Lippert and Wood

Answer 15

(2012)

Surveillance to help reduce crime, knowing of being watched

Question 16

Richmond

Answer 16

(2014)

Favela Pacification prior to 2014 World Cup in Brazil

Question 17

Newburn

Answer 17

(2014)

growing military police because of surplus of arms from 1997 onwards

Question 18

Graham (2010)

Answer 18

reconfiguring urban space

Question 19

Lefebvre (1970)

Answer 19

Argues that the contemporary city is characterised by a desire to become abstract - produced and reporduced

Question 20

Madden (2017)

Answer 20

Grenfell shows how social inequality is even manifested within physical structures