GLOBALIZATION AND COMMUNITIES

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GLOBALIZATION AND COMMUNITIES

• Decline in the power of the national government
• Communities have to look out for themselves
• Globalization as a force that transform
  communities

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TOPICS

• Urban dispersal (physical change)
• Economic pressure (inter-urban competition)
• Urban decay
• Twenty-first Century apartheid
• Sweatshops
• The multicultural city

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URBAN DISPERSAL

• Industrial dispersal
• Separation of decision-making from routine
  administration
• Edge cities
• Mismatch of jobs and housing

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POST-FORDIST DISPERSAL

• Country living
• Decline of small towns
• Rural industrialization
• A favourable labour climate

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INTER-URBAN COMPETITION

• Loyal company, loyal employees
• J.M. Schneider
• Maple Leaf
• Environmental considerations
• http//hogwatchmanitoba.org/

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INTER-URBAN COMPETITION AND CHEAP LABOUR

• Subsidizing business
• The environment
• Consequences for

• Brandon
• Winnipeg
• Manitoba
• The third world

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URBAN DECAY

• Cyclical decay and birth
• Secular (long-term) decline
• Red-lining
• The neo-liberal, post-fordist city

• Commercial concentration downtown
• Suburban sprawl
• Inner-city decay

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AVOIDING CAMDENS FATE

• Better urban planning
• Measures to deal with regional inequalities
• A culture that sees cities as a national asset

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21ST CENTURY APARTHEID

• Traditional enclaves of privilege

• Railroad right-of-way
• Symbolic barricases
• Glitzy, formal buildings or lobbies
• Limited accessibility
• General appearance

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FLIGHT FROM RESPONSIBILITY

• Traditional enclaves are separate, but
  responsible
• Tax flight Adjacent municipalities

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COMMON-INTEREST DEVELOPMENTS (NEIGHBOURHOOD
ASSOCIATIONS)

• Planned neighbourhood, governed by a board
• Contract written into titles
• Monthly charge for common services

• Roads
• Parks
• School
• Community centre
• Police
• Garbage collection, etc.

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EXAMPLES OF RULES

• No clotheslines
• No cars in driveways
• Approved colours, designs
• Age restrictions

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MAIN POINTS IN HERTZ, CH 4

• Government spy agencies have turned to industrial
  espionage.
• Governments put trade above human rights, and so
  do WTO rules.
• Corporations have great influence on government
  policy.

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HOMOGENOUS NEIGHBOURHOODS CHARACTERISTICS

• Self-imprisonment
• Abdication of social responsibility

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ANALYSING APARTHEID

• Ghettos involuntary and exclusionary
• Enclaves voluntary

• Immigrant
• Cultural
• Exclusionary

• Citadels Isolate themselves, dominate their
  surroundings

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SWEATSHOPS

• Third world manufacturing jobs
• Working conditions
• The third world comes to us

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THE INFORMAL SECTOR

• Low-paid service jobs
• Sub-contracted custom manufacturing
• Homework for the poor

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ALONG WITH SWEATSHOPS

• Up-scale homework
• Production and trade for the poor

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GLOBALIZATIONS IMPACT ON COMMUNITIES REVIEW
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EROSION OF THE NATIONAL STATE THREE RESPONSES

• Focus on community problems and ignore the rest
• Believe in markets as the cure-all
• Just hang on