PLG 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Gardiner Expressway
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How do urban local governments influence the facets of city life that people desire: buildings and public spaces, cultures, infrastructure and environment, social cohesion and diversity. If toronto puts tax on alcohol - that means more buying from other cities and that could be detrimental to toronto. Land use in planning is political: how municipal system relates to other levels of government, politics and policy, democracy and process, more with less, can"t reverse what you do, who should have access to the land. Jennifer keesmat - talked about her opinions against the mayor (gardiner. Expressway: toronto spending rapidly - more people, more land use, less money. Ontario and quebec have a big outcome on federal elections - more people. People incities usually vote for parties more left of the centre. Municipalities not levels of government , there"s only federal, national and provincial. What is politics: elections, arts of science, how to convince if something"s good, making decisions, exercising power,