HREQ 1730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bank Junction, Imagined Geographies, Urban Planning
6 Apr 2020
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Urban planning: power is reproduced in the urban setting through urban ideology. Ideas about: progress, new technology, taming of nature, use of public space, public space is used to allow and control for people to government: how access to resources, command and control. Urban planning in cities change to reflect agricultural architecture. The culture of a society is reflected upon the urban/ agricultural centres. Power is reproduced easier in urban settings osince they are more individualized (less cultural representation/ connections) In contact with far more people that you do not know/ do not know as well: more culturally open in urban settings oopen to adapting to new cultural values to better suit oneself ouse of space. Government is reflected in the orderliness of grid arrangement: introduces street names and numbers ointroduction of postal services. Reflects the importance of capitalism: bank junction, as the economy grows obanks replace the locations where commerce occurs.
