SLGY 2253 Study Guide - Final Guide: Strip Mall, Jane Addams, City Homicide
11 Dec 2016
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The most important factor for a community"s crime rate is neighbors willingness to assist others in need. Bc supreme court overturned the bylaw against camping out in the city parks. City"s permanent shelter beds number 350, homeless population of victoria is 1500. Early theorist to link globalization with changes to our cognitive experiences of time and space. Time-space compression : acceleration of economic activities eliminates distances and shortens time. Communication technology allows capital to move faster than ever. We change ourselves by changing the world we live in. Citizens today should demand a right to the city , that is not simply about money but rather about tangible experience. Increase in tourism results, more hotels built etc (v) local bourgeoisie encouraged to spend money economic boom results (vi) change in identity(sense of self) occurs; modern parisian identity is born. The city is the place where the wealthiest and the poorest co-exist.
