GGRA03H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tabula Rasa, Waste Management, Racialization
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Special issues of very large cities 4. Diseconomies of scale: sprawl and traffic congestion 4. Mass transit and economies of scale 5. Challenge idea that megacities are terrible 5. Urban environmental transition hypothesis: concept from sorensen and okata 6. Eating is a biological and social thing 9. Cities, micro-flora, and urban public health 12. Microbial traffic and global city networks 14. Racism and the racialization of sars 15. O(cid:272)ial media, big data a(cid:374)d (cid:862) (cid:373)a(cid:396)t cit(cid:455)(cid:863) e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts 16. Microbes: cities, micro-flora, and urban public health 25. Data: o(cid:272)ial media, big data a(cid:374)d (cid:862) (cid:373)a(cid:396)t cit(cid:455)(cid:863) e(cid:374)(cid:448)i(cid:396)o(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts 27. Fears about very big cities is ingrained in our popular imaginaries. There is a long history of thinking about city size. Plato and others identified 50k as an ideal size, at that size it is possible to know everyone, participatory democratic governance is possible.
