SOC205H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Africville, Urban Renewal, Urban Sociology
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To understand what the new urban political economy paradigm is and why it arose. To identify the contributions of the major theorists of political economy. To learn how cities have shifted to entrepreneurial governance as a strategy of inter-urban competition and economic development. Emphasizes investment shifts by banks, insurance companies, and international corporations that shaped cities by transferring the ownership and he uses of land from one social class to another. Focus on how conflicts between different elements od the urban population, notably social classes and racial and ethnic populations, determined the physical and social character of the metropolis. Explains changes related to urban marketing and the growth of (cid:494)symbolic economy(cid:495) organized around tourism, sports, entertainment and the arts rather than manufacturing. -a general shift in sociology from the functionalist to conflict perspectives. - the changing demographic, econ, and pol character of cities in the west. Major housing shortage faced by return of war veterans and post-war (cid:494)baby-boom(cid:495)
