CITB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Robert A. Dahl, Urban Renewal, Urban Ecology
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Lecture #3: today, growth machine politics and urban regime coalitions, both approaches need to be contextualized within the mainstream approaches of politics and urban sociology (review, review, urban development through a biotic determinism. That is, like all other living organisms, human beings must first find a niche within a larger habitat. This process gives rise to a struggle in which each type of land user ends up in a location to which a land user is best adapted. It represents a social darwinism of space in which the geographical allocation of human types maximize the efficiency of the society as a whole. Human behavior is equated to natural process, where a redwood tree outcompetes ferns, yet still exist within a symbiotic relationship. Politics and or history does not account for much in this justification of racialized class differences in the capitalist city: political scientists like robert dahl, viewed the city as a bastion of american b, growth machine thesis pluralism.
