NoteBook

Question 1

What are deviance service centers?

Answer 1

Centers that sell goods and services that are illegal but for which there is a demand.

Question 2

What does wilson mean by “truly disadvantage”?

Answer 2

Segregation of communities in terms of economic opportunities, a tax base, and social amenities.

Question 3

Where does higher rate crime occur in Canada?

Answer 3

Rural area and small town

Question 4

Why do rates of homicide in Canada and US diverge largely?

Answer 4

Continuing racial segregation and economic destitution in inner-city neighbourhoods in US cities.

Question 5

According to David Harvey, neo-liberalism is a theory of?

Answer 5

Political economic practices that propose that human well being can best be advances by liberating individual entrepreneurial freedoms and skills within an institutional framework characterized by private property rights, free market and free trade.

Question 6

What did profit-driven urbanization resulted in?

Answer 6

Changes in housing, mobility and urban services. It reduced access to urban services.

Question 7

Social exclusion refers to?

Answer 7

the syndrome of poverty and multiple deprivation including lack of employment, low income, poor housing and health, and limited access to facilities and services.

Question 8

what are the 4 ways in which social exclusion and gender intersect?

Answer 8

1. Social exclusion is related most obviously to poverty
2. Location of resident affects the availability of quality of, and access to services.
3. Social exclusion is linked to mobility
4. Social inclusion addresses participation in governance and having a political voice in the city

Question 9

What is hidden homelessness?

Answer 9

Less visible on the street or in shelters and more likely to rely on informal arrangements.

Question 10

What does the term woman-friendly mean?

Answer 10

Take into account the activities of women’s daily lives and include designs by women architects and planners.

Question 11

What is Castell’s “Crisis of Consumption”?

Answer 11

The city’s importance because it was at the municipal level that the collective consumption occurred in every day life. Cities losing their central place and becoming more the site of consumption activities.

Question 12

What are the 3 main structural issues identified by Castell in terms of social mobilization?

Answer 12

1. Preservation and improvement of residential neighbourhoods.
2. Poverty
3. Social and cultural discrimination

Question 13

What is Harvey’s “Crisis of Accumulation”?

Answer 13

Triggered by investors leaving the inner-cities. Real estate over investing in an area because they think its profitable, but actually flood the market and decline in profit.

Question 14

what are the 3 circuits of Harvey?

Answer 14

1. Flows into manufacturing
2. Capital tend to flow into investments in land
3. Flow into scientific knowledge

Question 15

What is Moloch’s growth Machine?

Answer 15

City is controlled by business, political and professional elites.

Question 16

What is a common assumption of elites?

Answer 16

That the best interest of the city and its residents are optimally served by pursuing continuous economic growth and development.

Question 17

What is flexism?

Answer 17

Characterized by small-batch manufacturing runs, high-tech production, and decentralized organizations.

Question 18

What is place-marketing?

Answer 18

The place is considered as a product and the users as consumers

Question 19

What is residential Alienation?

Answer 19

The condition of estrangement between a person and his/her dwelling

Question 20

What is absolute homelessness?

Answer 20

people who lack physical shelter and therefor must sleep outdoors, in abandoned buildings, etc.

Question 21

What is relative homelessness?

Answer 21

The condition of having physical shelter that does not meet basic standards of health and safety.

Question 22

What is chronic homelessness?

Answer 22

sustained periods without shelter

Question 23

What is episodic homelessness?

Answer 23

Occasional and brief loss of housing

Question 24

What is housing first?

Answer 24

Focusing on promptly providing homeless people with their own apartment and then additional services as needed.

Question 25

What is accomodative response to homelessness?

Answer 25

Provide for basic subsistence needs, especially food and temporary shelter.

Question 26

What is restorative response to homelessness?

Answer 26

Aid the homeless from a treatment-oriented rather than sustenance perspective (physical and psychological)

Question 27

What is containement responses to homelessness?

Answer 27

Seeks to minimize the threat that the homeless pose to public order by reducing their visibility.

Question 28

What are the 3 school of thoughts?

Answer 28

1. Chicago school: Duality of social and cultural factors shaping areas.
2. Political economy perspectives: Political and economic factors structuring urban spaces (post-fordism and post-modernism)
3. LA school: Constellation of mode analyses (elites and common interests).

Question 29

What is the quiet revolution?

Answer 29

A historical period specific to the quebec society characterized by an overwhelming process of modernization

Question 30

what are the 2 main objectives of the quiet revolution?

Answer 30

1. enhance the life condition and administration capabilities of regions to make them more competitive on a Canadian and continental scale
2. Reform of the municipal system and to create planning institutions that would give local autorities resources and legitimacy to intervene on the local and regional scene.

Question 31

What are the recents factors in Quebec urban transformation?

Answer 31

1. Deindustrialization and Urban Renewal
2. Suburbanization
3. Ethnocultural change

Question 32

Creative construction is created by?

Answer 32

1. Higher level of economic competition as a result of enlarging markets
2. Industrial impacts of technological innovations

Question 33

What are some consequences of Quebec urban transformation?

Answer 33

1. Continued population loss

2. Central city poorer because of suburbs

Question 34

What are the main points of Jane Jacobs effective economic pools of use?

Answer 34

1. Mixed primary uses draw different people into an area on different schedules for different reasons
2. A high concentration of people and closely grained activities.
3. Older lower-rent buildings that serves as incubators for new entrepreneurial ventures and marginal commercial enterprises.
4. Criss-crossing street networks that draw people into and through an area along different routes.

Question 35

What are the 3 key genre of post-modernism?

Answer 35

City building that encourages:

1. conservation
2. Reuse
3. replication of traditional urban form

Question 36

What are the 3 dialogues common in urban form?

Answer 36

1. intersections of different moments of a city’s history (holy trinity church)
2. Interaction of more local and more global voices (distillery district in toronto)
3. Collisions and conjunctions of differing political or economic interest.