GEOG 357 Lecture 23: L23
11 May 2017
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Separate people from their own forms of sustenance: freeing their labour, and labour becomes commodity that they can trade. Survey: many people go to mall because they feel safer. Mall space regulated for tenants and customers: management of microbehabiors, sitting on floor, uninviting poorer population, pricing and range of commodities. Regulating public space: panhandling laws: passed in 1998, remove beggars from bank machines, bus stops, fines: 100-200, failed 2002 challenge by anti poverty groups, makes visible how space is regulated. Arguments: petitioners: panhandling bylaw as threat to, section 2(rights to freedom of expression, section 7: rights to life, liberty, section 15: rights to equality, city: panhandling as, threat to commerce, threat to safety, case of broken windows.
