ENVS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Steam Engine, Centrality

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 1000
• Professor: Peter Timmerman

Document Summary

City outcome of a process that we call urbanization. Christian schmid (most clear and well explained) Thinking of lefebvre to harvey to schmid . De-urbanization scarborough where people are leaving jobs (less ppl) Re-urbanization ( condo land at the lake shore in toronto) City is part of urbanization which is part of production of space and wherever we are today we are in the urban. We can not be outside of that . Urban fabric (urban tissue) spreading across the city. Mediation: they look at urban as a specific level of sociality connecting private to global(french sense it means everything) . Urban connects these two: centrality: there was exchange in cities from very beginning. City pla(cid:272)e of e(cid:374)(cid:272)ou(cid:374)ter a(cid:374)d it"s where society is constantly being produced. All of the differences exist in the totality of differences. Living in city one is always aware of it: difference: differences are productive of urban society, the differences that challenge us everyday.