March 28th, 2012
•check past exams, format consistent
•progress, not always recieved as positively as outlined in theory
•some people didnt like progress as articulated here
•arrowlakes community
•africa bill in halifax
•start by thinking about bc, in post war era, a lot of state sponsored mega projects on their way, a
lot of nature and development that lay behind logic of these projects, what are these basic ideas
about nature development that lay behind these projects:
◦nature there to be exploited and harness for our benefit, nature should operate in this equation
◦means of economic prosperity, resource to be tapped
◦government wanted to connect urban and rural together
•in terms of these ideas, what kind of thinking these ideas epitomized?
◦Science and technology supposed to propel society, looking towards the future, staying out of
the past
•what advantages could they bring?
◦Science will fix all our problems
◦every aspect of society better
◦science a new religion
◦keep up to date with the rest of the world
◦testing the limits of capability, altering nature through capital industry for purposes of
economic development, science guiding principles all along that process
•why science, so appealing, what did it represent in adherence to modernism
◦something a-political, something to plough ahead with without debate
◦after wwii, saw the power with science, atom bomb, military used science more in how they
planned and equipped troops
◦society in general sees science as a powerful entity and something to harness
◦humanity destined to alter nature
◦inevitability driving this ideology forward
◦science by nature objective, rational, partial
◦easier to get behind these ideas
◦not subjective like answering an essay question, slightly different way of looking at things
◦community has to get resettled
•positive outcomes planners would have from resettling these communities
◦convenience, closer, schools, churches recreation all together
◦safety of the community
◦not sparsely populated, denser compact community
◦spread embrace of technology
•why are these planners so involved with reorganizing these communities, what limitations did the
planners see in the old way before the project?
◦buy out other land theyre settled on
◦lots of immigration, no organization, need to make this community more eonomically
beneficial and fix up the laid back town
◦hard to govern, everyone fragmented in views and neighborhood sparse
◦efficiency
◦efficiency guides principles that underpin high modernist thinking, efficiency achieved