PSY435H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Systems Theory, Majora Carter, White Flight
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Ted talk green the ghetto 2006 ?majora carter, white flight factors drive people with ecological means from areas, leaving those without to stay in the ecologically deprived area. The ability to turn itself around in this instance is really low. Only way to do that is to harvest the social capital: ted talk james howard kunstler, ted dave meslin: the antidote to apathy, carter what wakes people up is how it affects them. People who are concerned find out what is going on (or try to). Often may run into people that do not believe in it. The believers, the people that are concerned, start running into barriers from others. Can become less oppositional if you build relationships with people in the area. James ability to harvest social capital has been gutted by the way that we have designed public spaces. Our sense of being a local inhabitant has pretty much disappeared.
