CITB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rulemaking, Disconnection, City Beautiful Movement
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What is a city and what are its powers: city politics are decisions that a ects us daily, matters locally, provincially, nationally and internationally. Three things that cities do: control lives (revolves around it, world economy, provides jobs, create bylaws, provide resources (services, public transit, raise revenue through taxes (property, take care of environment (recycling, housing and social services, improve country gep. Where do local governments t in the canadian political system: under constitution act, what governmental power there is, provincial government, municipal government. 1: power by province to deliver services, de ned by clear geographic boundaries, government run by government o cials, power to raise revenue. Local government: includes municipal corporations and other mandated entities. Multilevel government: local, territorial, provincial and federal governments. Multilevel governance: includes local governance and bodies at prov/fed levels. How did local governments emerge: treaties were made between indigenous people about land, cities had foundation from indigenous history.
