TERMINOLOGY

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TERMINOLOGY

• Panopticon
• Funicular railroad

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TERMINOLOGY

• Gentrifiers
• Agora
• Bourgeois
• "a Miesian skyscape of fantastic proportions

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MORE TERMINOLOGY

• Dreadnaught
• Watts rebellion
• Red-lining
• Norman Rockwell painting
• Haussmannization of Los Angeles
• Jim Crow legislation

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INTRODUCTION

• Ethnic identification of neighbourhoods
• Class identification
• Social isolation

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CONSEQUENCES OF SOCIAL ISOLATION

• Concentration of social problems
• Growth of suspicion and fear
• Barricading

• Fortifying the home
• the neighbourhood
• malls
• User fees for public facilities
• War on the poor

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INTRODUCTION TO TINDAL TINDAL

• Right-wing belief in limited government
• Privatization
• Contracting-out
• Governance

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LEFT CITY POLITICS

• Racism
• Homophobia
• Gender equity
• Affordable housing
• Homelessness and hunger
• Low-income community development
• Overall city priorities

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LEFT/LIBERAL COMPARISON ISSUES

• Neighbourhood protection
• Keeping the automobile in its place
• Promotion of diversity
• Preservation of the past
• Protection and development of parks

• Racism/homophobia/gender equity
• Affordable housing
• Homelessness and hunger
• Low-income community development
• Overall city priorities

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LEFT/LIBERAL COMPARISON ATTITUDES

• LIBERALS
• Viability and attractiveness
• Work within the system
• Strong government
• Government has social responsibilities

• THE LEFT
• Social questions
• Pessimistic tone
• Radical solutions
• Implication Capitalism is the problem
• Strong government
• Government has social responsibilities

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LIBERAL CONSTITUENCY REMINDER

• Professional people
• Intellectuals
• Heritage advocates
• Some advocates for neighbourhoods
• SOME SYMPATHY IN THESE RANKS FOR LEFT POSITIONS.

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FOR EXAMPLE, HERES JACOBS

• On large-scale, planned develop-ments To house
  people in this planned fashion, price tags are
  fastened on the population, and each sorted-out
  chunk of price-tagged populace lives in growing
  suspicion and tension against the rest of the
  city (Death and Life, p. 4)

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LEFT CONSTITUENCY

• Low income earners
• Some members of labour unions
• Social agency staff
• Some teachers and other caregivers
• Some professional people and intellectuals
• NOT ENOUGH TO WIN ELECTIONS
• LEFT-LIBERAL COALITION IS THE ONLY WORKABLE
  OPTION

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COALITIONS IN ACTION

• Toronto
• Vancouver
• Winnipeg
• Portland, Oregon