Shaping Good Cities and Citizens

Bridge, Gary (editor) / Watson, Sophie (editor) / Ruppert, Evelyn S. (author)

The New Blackwell Companion to the City ; 667-678

Wiley‐Blackwell Companions to Geography

2011-02-25

12 pages

9781444395105 , 9781405189811

https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444395105.ch58

Article/Chapter (Book)

Electronic Resource

English

shaping good cities and citizens , conduct, of discount retailers, illegal vendors, panhandlers, street youth, discount shoppers, and squeegeers ‐ source of area's problems , moralizing conduct/problematizing space , making of particular space ‐ in downtown Toronto, Canada – Yonge‐Dundas , guiding conduct/making space ‐ against moralization of conduct, image of a good space constructed , “urban entertainment center” (UEC) ‐ high‐end retail, theme restaurants and cinema megaplex , Ontario Municipal Board (OMB), quasi‐judicial, administrative tribunal ‐ disputes falling under the Ontario Planning Act , urban planning and architecture to marketing ‐ symbolically shaping physical spaces of city , city‐making project ‐ discourses, of rationalities, reasons, logic, arguments and justifications , identifying problematizations and rationalities ‐ mobilizing practices and technologies