NoteBook Flashcards
(36 cards)
What are deviance service centers?
Centers that sell goods and services that are illegal but for which there is a demand.
What does wilson mean by “truly disadvantage”?
Segregation of communities in terms of economic opportunities, a tax base, and social amenities.
Where does higher rate crime occur in Canada?
Rural area and small town
Why do rates of homicide in Canada and US diverge largely?
Continuing racial segregation and economic destitution in inner-city neighbourhoods in US cities.
According to David Harvey, neo-liberalism is a theory of?
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.
What did profit-driven urbanization resulted in?
Changes in housing, mobility and urban services. It reduced access to urban services.
Social exclusion refers to?
the syndrome of poverty and multiple deprivation including lack of employment, low income, poor housing and health, and limited access to facilities and services.
what are the 4 ways in which social exclusion and gender intersect?
- Social exclusion is related most obviously to poverty
- Location of resident affects the availability of quality of, and access to services.
- Social exclusion is linked to mobility
- Social inclusion addresses participation in governance and having a political voice in the city
What is hidden homelessness?
Less visible on the street or in shelters and more likely to rely on informal arrangements.
What does the term woman-friendly mean?
Take into account the activities of women’s daily lives and include designs by women architects and planners.
What is Castell’s “Crisis of Consumption”?
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.
What are the 3 main structural issues identified by Castell in terms of social mobilization?
- Preservation and improvement of residential neighbourhoods.
- Poverty
- Social and cultural discrimination
What is Harvey’s “Crisis of Accumulation”?
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.
what are the 3 circuits of Harvey?
- Flows into manufacturing
- Capital tend to flow into investments in land
- Flow into scientific knowledge
What is Moloch’s growth Machine?
City is controlled by business, political and professional elites.
What is a common assumption of elites?
That the best interest of the city and its residents are optimally served by pursuing continuous economic growth and development.
What is flexism?
Characterized by small-batch manufacturing runs, high-tech production, and decentralized organizations.
What is place-marketing?
The place is considered as a product and the users as consumers
What is residential Alienation?
The condition of estrangement between a person and his/her dwelling
What is absolute homelessness?
people who lack physical shelter and therefor must sleep outdoors, in abandoned buildings, etc.
What is relative homelessness?
The condition of having physical shelter that does not meet basic standards of health and safety.
What is chronic homelessness?
sustained periods without shelter
What is episodic homelessness?
Occasional and brief loss of housing
What is housing first?
Focusing on promptly providing homeless people with their own apartment and then additional services as needed.