CRIM 3654 Lecture Notes - Business Improvement District, Yonge-Dundas Square, Revanchism
13 Dec 2013
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When we think about urban space, think about urban space as a living laboratory for the implementation of these ideas and practices in crime prevention and policing. It is here that we will draw on insights of randy libert and his work on business improvement districts this work has illuminated key transformations in the ways that policing, most broadly defined, gets done. E. g. reforming of dundas square, on-going project of regent park. Issues not just of interest to us as criminologists, but also to critical urban geographers and other geographers. Revitalization cities transforemed from sites of heterogeneity and spontaneithy to sites of homogeneity and controlled consumerism. New understanding of cities as sites of consumption has helped to understand how we see ourselves. In principle, streets were signed imagined to be spaces of spontaneity, encounter, serendipity, chance and exchange they were unpredictable precisely because they seemed to belong to the public .
