Urban Health

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Urban Health

• 5 Oct 2006

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Todays class

• Continue discussion of your field exercise
• Lecture
• Assign and discuss paper

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Miscellaneous

• Stressed? CALSS can help (Counciling and Learning
  Skills Services) http//www.calss.utoronto.ca/

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Readings for Today

• Wirth, L. (1938). Urbanism as a Way of Life.
• Fishman, Robert. "Megalopolis Unbound." from
  Metropolis Center and Symbol of our Times.
• "Introduction" in Sorkin, Michael, ed. Variations
  on a Theme Park The New American City and the
  End of Public Space. New York Hill and Wang,
  1992. (CR)

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Urbanism as a way of life

• Classic piece in urban sociology
• Urban lifestyle
• Function of population density, size,
  heterogeneity
• Characterized by what?
• Chicago school of Urban Sociology
• Focused on forms of cities, their development,
  and the outcomes of people competing for unequal
  spaces
• Park
• McKenzie
• Burgess
• Have urban areas passed these modern conceptions
  by?

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Wirth Expanded

• Cities are
• Centers for political, economic, and cultural
  livelihoods
• Sociological perspective on cities
• Relationship between population, density, and
  heterogeneity
• Three perspectives
• Physical form, social org/soc structure, series
  of ideas and attitudes

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Megalopolis Unbound

• Decentralization Foresight of Frank Lloyd Wright
• Megalopolis?
• Unbound?
• How did it get this way?
• Implications for city life, experiences, and
  outcomes for urban dwellers?
• Is the megalopolis different in Canada?

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Development of the unbound metropolis

• From modernism to decentralization
• Suburbs elite enclave dependent on core to
  independent and for the masses
• Key difference scale, mode of transit
• New cities urban, rural, and suburban
• The role of trucking
• Post war policies and housing booms
• Trends since the 1960s

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Variations on a theme park

• Anywhere is everywhere
• Commodization of space
• Style, Signs, and substance
• Increasing segregation and emphasis on security
• Source of information and culture is
  fundamentally transformed
• Designer communities intended to particular
  demographic groups with particular interests

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Other Relevant Books

• Fantasy city (Hannigan)
• Learning from Las Vegas (Venturi)
• Community Safety and Security in an Insecure
  world (Bauman)
• Metropolitics (Orfield)
• City Form and Everyday Life Torontos
  Gentrification and Critical Social Practice
  (Caulfield)
• Heat Wave (Klinenberg)