SOC364H1 Study Guide - Sin Tax, Diminishing Returns, Hunter-Gatherer
Document Summary
Theme of film deals with sprawling out of cities and how to do it if energy prices skyrocket. Suburban ways of living are energy intensive which occurred during the blackout. Precarious system we depend on and not being able to maintain the infrastructure. Smart communities the built design for waling ans have seen some success. Overall expenses people have for energy has gone up. Cities lost what they have done which is production of goods and now for services. How it will play out is uncertain. Service is vague term from high end values to low end service jobs means we make fewer things. Society no longer exports things then rack up deficits. People have now finaced their lifestyles through debt. Theme park cities have become a destination. Before all watch cbc so socialization was much more common now much more fragment. Not just territorial comunites but networks that cut through space. Demarcaztion of space anything can become urban.
