ANTC18 urban

Claderia Interrrelated set of processes

1. operate within temportality and agency: residents build little by little

2. Engage transverally with offical logics: residents consult with landlords, laws/regualtions interact with institiutions

3. generate new modes of politics: residents making rights within the city.

4. create highly unequal and heterogenous ciites” uneqaul lifestlye)

peripheries 1

the governance of the body and faces: sepreation and policing (governmental auhtorites0

peripheries 2

autonomy and freedom: residents operat within the states (real estate fiannces, less control)

movement and history

• 1492: columbus discovered the americans starting the process of colonailism (muslims/jews purity)

• orientalism: said: the west view on global south countires 

• migration and diaspora: migration where people were pushed into labour from the non-west underdevelopped world to the developped world. 

conceptulaizing globalization

the global south has low gdp, it is densely populated of slums and hazards

urban metabolism

metabolism burns energy and weight, it can ignore stress, disabilites, and accessiblity of food can make an impact (metabolic problem)

production of urban natures

• it can also be energy within ecology, nature shapes the production of human nature and the distribution of energy.

• can be smog from the cities

• natural environments and conditions are products

sociolgical study of cities

• social process merge from economic and politcal distingues

• the cities look at social strucutre relationships for urban life

• human-cenric (where humans come together which is society)

• human and politcs relationship

• human production (laws for human to follow)

ecological studies

• living organisms and the urban environment such as biodiversity and environmental impacts

ecological categories 

1. the natural: ecosystems 

2. the physical: built aspects (building raliway)

3. the marterial: urban materials (speed bumps shape our environment)

4. the political: government, planning decisions 

5. the bodily: experince of residents (walking in the park, mall)

urban ecological imagination post-industrial

tortoronto is post-indsutrial, this means there is a connection of social and there is a connection to different labour such as services, education, banking and cusotmer service.

• nature does return as commodity (the value of the city)

• example: don valley brick works was replaced, as there is a park and a farmers market.

ecological nostalgia

industrialization created a city with nature integration

industrial metropolis and modernist 

industrial city dehumanzies people (work) and rehumanized people to bring them back to nature

urban ecological imagination metaphors

• urban metabolism

• the garden city: the nature returns to the city (improve the value of property)

urban environment

• modern science, public health and infrastructure: underground sewage

urban ecologies

• nature is different from culture: nature is produced along the city

• non-human and how the human is apart of the nature

• nature is conditions and products 

Habitability

• it means how poeple live in and make sense of the urban environmment such as creating maps and grids

• naming: giving names to locations to create hisotry and memories

• the sieve order: it is michel certeau’s way of planning for the city, such as drifitng means wandering off in the city.