KINE 1000 Lecture Notes - Urban Renewal, Urban Sociology, Neoliberalism

• School: York University
• Department: Kinesiology & Health Science
• Course: KINE 1000
• Professor: Hernan Humana

Document Summary

The mega-event strategy is said to allow the powerful interests in cities to attach their agendas to the olympic process, creating the perfect policy mechanism for ensuring a growth agenda. Industrialization, rural life and its associated institutions of social integration crumbled under the weight of population growth, economic development, social mobility and social struggles. Park believed that cities both produced and were produced by people. Growth machine, local actors that organize around the property development industry and advocate the application of market forces to land use (i. e. , highest and best use = economic benefit; not social). They wanted to attract a tourism industry and attract a commoditized sector in which they can bring in profit. Regime theory, does not identify one particular group or small number of groups, but tries to explain urban growth by investigating the conditions under which certain groups will enter into coalitions that facilitate growth.