CITB04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Citb, Manchester Metrolink City Zone, Urban Studies
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Office hours: mondays 10-11am, wednesday 1-2pm mw379. Henri lefebvre wrote many books on the change of people and their lives in terms of urbanization. It is very difficult to summarize a city. Implosion/explosion: drawing conveying a sense of beginnings". The city of toronto imagines in the1700s. There was no first nation history here yet: toronto 1793-1961. How the grey spreads outside of the country side: notes, the urban is defined by peter john 2009 by what her refers to as propinquity. Since most of the world"s population today lives in urban areas (davis 2006) has the study of the urban become the study of society at large (brenner, Can we still speak of local or city politics: urban politics. The urban is politics in miniature and this creates particular kind of political system rather than a mirror image of other levels : henri lefebvre identifies the urban as, the sociospatiaal form of centrality.
