GEO 793 Lecture Notes - United States House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform, Megacity
11 Nov 2012
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The rise of targeting and the eclipse of social rights in. The amalgamation (collaboration) collapsed a two-tier system of local government into one megacity , forming a new jurisdiction out of the old city of toronto and the surrounding mature suburbs. Amalgamation created confusion for city staff and politicians, who were charged with the task of harmonizing their policies, practices, priorities and employees, in the face of massive budget cutbacks. Understood as a social right, recreation was subsidized and in effect, free to residents. The institution of targeting across the new city marked the final dismantling of social citizenship approaches to public recreation that developed in toronto in the post-war era. The decline of universal welfare forms of social citizenship and state forms, or advanced liberal technologies of government. The eclipse of welfare forms of social citizenship and the rise of selective or targeted social policy through a case study of public recreation in toronto.
