01:450:250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Favela, Broken Windows Theory, Mechanical And Organic Solidarity
16 Apr 2019
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Jane jacobs viewed the public life of cities in terms of a single, integrated unit motivated by shared goals. Vendors have different goals and priorities and don"t maintain the public/private divide that jacobs celebrated. Bayat(2000), building on research in the middle east, see cities in terms of multiple, often competing publics - how does the public form when there are large numbers of non-long term residents. What might we learn about ny from perspective of cairo. Bringing a developing country/global south perspective to urban informality. Asking how the us can be understood in terms of the global south. Conventional view of the informal : the passive poor. The urban poor are marginal, dangerous classes in informal slums and cities of the global south. Passive does not mean they do nothing, but passive in the idea that they can be pushed to pursue a certain political ideal or movement simply by a central organized force.
