Lecture 7 - Cities on the Edge Flashcards
What people are now moving into the suburbs?
More immigrant people and their culture, not just white people
How is Canada a suburban nation
- 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
Where do newcomers tend to settle?
settle in suburban or exurban areas, changing face of urban peripheries and demographic and cultural composition of Canada
What is Suburbanization
the combination of non-central population and economic growth with urban spatial expansion
what is suburbanisms
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
What are the neighbourhood classifications?
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
Urbanists romanticize cities, which distorts how suburbs are perceived
perception of suburbs change depending on who looks at it
Historical suburbs
from compact forms to sprawling, large scale suburban form, shift from walking or public transit to mass adoption of private automobile-based travel
Suburbs evolve in response to
- 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
How are Canadian suburbs increasingly defined by immigrant experience?
- 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
what suburbs are immigrants making?
ethnoburbs no longer middle class suburban experience
what social problems are moving into the suburbs?
poverty, homelessness and food insecurity, resulting in different implications for policy-makers, service providers than inner city counterparts
What have suburban municipalities been slow to do?
build necessary social infrastructure. eg Surrey homeless camp,
Municipalities can’t respond fast enough to meet social needs as cities grow quickly
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What does post suburbia and in-between city look like?
- new suburban forms such as edge cities or technoburbs and suburban downtowns
