POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Metanarrative, Urban Age, John Tory
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O concentration: different communities being brought together, easier to communicate. What happens when you put lots of people in close proximity: how do we need to change governance. Urban politics affects us every day: easier to get involved in municipal politics than it is for provincial/federal. Cities are where we find ourselves on an immediate level: how they are organized, governed, every day presence to urban issues. Citizens communicate with municipal government more than prov/fed. John tory was elected by more people than there will be people voting for the pm because we do not vote directly for pm. Urban issues are crucial and important: people have become more interested, new kinds of engagements and conversations. 60% of eligible voters in 2014 municipal election. Downtown relief line, protect heritage assets, one transportation body, innovative parks policy, affordable child care. Canada as an urban nation: federally, cities are also important, recent reconfigurations of ridings, urban and suburban now have the power.
