Lecture 7 - Cities on the Edge

Question 1

What people are now moving into the suburbs?

Answer 1

More immigrant people and their culture, not just white people

Question 2

How is Canada a suburban nation

Answer 2

• in terms of built form, more than 2/3rds live in suburban places
• located at periphery of large urban centres, small towns, or even villages

Question 3

Where do newcomers tend to settle?

Answer 3

settle in suburban or exurban areas, changing face of urban peripheries and demographic and cultural composition of Canada

Question 4

What is Suburbanization

Answer 4

the combination of non-central population and economic growth with urban spatial expansion

Question 5

what is suburbanisms

Answer 5

refers to a growing prevalence of qualitatively distinct “suburban way of life”
- emerging modes of heterogeneous, non-traditional ways of living at the urban periphery

Question 6

What are the neighbourhood classifications?

Answer 6

Exurbs: Very low-density rural areas where more than half the workers commute to the central core. They live in rural-estate subdivisions or along country roads, and comprise about 8 percent of the metropolitan population in 2016

Automobile suburbs: these are the classic suburban neighbourhoods. Almost everybody commutes by car, there is little transit use and hardly anyone walks or cycles to work. They include about 67 percent of metropolitan populations

Transit suburbs: neighbourhoods where a higher proportion of people commute by transit, comprising about 12 percent of metropolitan populations

Active cores: downtowns and other neighbourhoods where a higher proportion of people walk or cycle to work. These neighbourhoods, which most international observers would consider “urban,” make up only 14 percent of Canadian metropolitan populations

Question 7

Urbanists romanticize cities, which distorts how suburbs are perceived

Answer 7

perception of suburbs change depending on who looks at it

Question 8

Historical suburbs

Answer 8

from compact forms to sprawling, large scale suburban form, shift from walking or public transit to mass adoption of private automobile-based travel

Question 9

Suburbs evolve in response to

Answer 9

• to life cycle of residents, convenient for large families, change when empty nest
• as political, economic, or social conditions change
• as their relative location within metro region is altered by continued urban growth and expansion

Question 10

How are Canadian suburbs increasingly defined by immigrant experience?

Answer 10

• new suburban populations are more heterogeneous
• contemporary pattern is to move directly to the suburbs
• destabilizes stereotypes of white middle-class nuclear families living in single-family homes as the norm
• Canada growing by immigration, they are starting lives in suburbs, culturally, sometimes multigenerational living in one house

Question 11

what suburbs are immigrants making?

Answer 11

ethnoburbs 
no longer middle class suburban experience

Question 12

what social problems are moving into the suburbs?

Answer 12

poverty, homelessness and food insecurity, resulting in different implications for policy-makers, service providers than inner city counterparts

Question 13

What have suburban municipalities been slow to do?

Answer 13

build necessary social infrastructure. eg Surrey homeless camp,

Question 14

Municipalities can’t respond fast enough to meet social needs as cities grow quickly

Answer 14

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Question 15

What does post suburbia and in-between city look like?

Answer 15

• new suburban forms such as edge cities or technoburbs and suburban downtowns

Question 16

where does most suburban development take place?

Answer 16

in a dynamic landscape, resembles nether the old inner city nor the glamorous cookie-cutter suburbs

Question 17

what are central characteristics of post-suburbia

Answer 17

balance between traditional suburban functions and emergent employment and economic activity

Question 18

What is suburban politics

Answer 18

aggressive suburban regimes have come to power regionally or federally

• use their political base to shift the meaning to metropolitan politics
• Doug Ford exploiting the urban/suburban divide

Question 19

What is New Suburban politics

Answer 19

Suburbs were 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 consumptions services
• presence of strong local state
• poverty

Question 20

What do Canadian Millennials want

Answer 20

they want to own a home rather then renting, prefer single homes, semi-detached or townhomes, rather than living in high-rise units

Question 21

which city will see a population growth

Answer 21

Surrey is trending upwards

Question 22

what city according to a news article says is the fastest growing municipality?

Answer 22

Langley