GGR124H1 Lecture 6: Lecture 6, Urban Politics beyond City Hall
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Today"s class: informal evaluation results, politics within and beyond city hall (cont"d, migration and the city. Notes on: political relations shape urban space but space also shapes political relations, space can harden" relations - makes them more difficult to change. For example, social polarization in the city can create more political distance between social groups and thus impact how they relate in the future: alternatively, some spatial configurations can make political relations more open and fluid. For example, groups that are thrown together" in neighbourhoods in toronto find ways to work together and even identify with each other when they may have been in serious conflict in their home countries. The city as the site of movements (where things happen) Urban as a particular kind of movement (the focus of political claims: other kinds of urban politics that happen beyond the strict bounds of city hall: business improvement areas and neighbourhood associations.