General Urban Flashcards
(60 cards)
Massey 2000
Urban is centrality, innovation, cult change, soc dimensions Crucible of new mixing and creating Achieve feats far beyond indiv capabilities
Glaeser 2011
Urban density = clear path to prosperity - feature feats far beyond individual capabilities
Pile 1996
Clashing point for diverse subjectivities, identities etc.
Savage and Warde 1993
Cities aren’t contained with clear boundaries - porous boundaries
Agnew 1994
Against territorial trap
Harvey 1997
Relational spaces and spatial temporalities - urban is a set of conflictual heterogeneity - processes producing spatio-temporalities
Lefebvre 1970
Amorphous homogeneity of the urban - new ontological reality - metamorphosis into single, converging system. Organising planet into a single, complex, urban system. Viral.
Merrifield 2013
New world spatial order of boundless metrop - planetary UBS. 75% pop’ll live in urban by 2050. Urban is shapeless, boundless, tensions - Burgess model engrained in urban - now surely irrelevant Totalizing UBS = ingredient of global relational networks - converge & annihilate space by time through GBS and planetary capitalism.
Gleeson 2012
Urban age - city as machine, integrated body
Giddens 1990
Spatial = constructed from multiplicity of social relations across scales. Capitalist construction - time and space become distorted by global finan market through immense web of global connections - necessitate a ‘transnat’ urbanism
Davis 2006
Due to expansive nature of UBS - could experience a ‘eutopic logic’
Amin and Thrift 2002
Footprints of the city
Lefebvre 2003
City exists as a historical concept/entity. What remains are generic cities - spatially based theory thus becomes hist concept of past
Dear and Dahmann 2008
Fact maj of world’s pop now in cities doesn’t unconditionally constitute an ‘urban world’ Attempts at clarification by contextualising urban process by reducing them to fashionable concepts fails to capture complexity of local & global transformation.
Harvey 2012
Cities of Revolution - reclaiming public space
Burgess Model 1929
Mapped movement of pop groups to diff areas - organic city - urban ‘evolution’. Societal ladder - concentric circles reps process of ‘urban succession’
50s and 60s Model
Theorists need to understand cause of sifting - more about capitalism - the marxist critique of the previous models
Harvey 1973, Lefebvre 1970
Critical of spatial & T defs of the ‘urban’ and against ‘spatial fethishism’ Urbanism prod of cap rather than people sorting selves in direct competition
Castell’s Alternative 1983
Role of city as location of collective consumption (housing, IFS, services) - social reprod of labour power. Urban social movements - cap created situ where workers together - when agitated -> resistance: city = space of contestation
Althusser 1967
^ing requirement for workers to be adequately housed, healthy and educated - neo-Marxist terms: to be reproduced
Harvey 1978
Social justice and the city - argument: moved urban form and spatial org to urban process. Arg: social justice incompatible with capitalist forms of UBS - no solution to inequality - no way to fair capital society. Money goes into city to build stuff which allows money to be generated - then cap moves to another place - city grows further. Goeg landscape grows through capital devel
Dear 2000
Chicago school outdated - LA as symptomatic. LA as paradigmatic city. Post metropolis - decentering, complex, polycetrnic, agglomeration
Soja 2000
Postmodern urbanism - splintering urbanism - patchwork quilt of postmetrop & post-mod urbanism
Skeates 1997
‘Cherry-Picked’ spaces - splintering urbanism
