Neighbourhood-Community

Neighbourhood-Community

• Reading: – Valentine Ch 3: 111-117– Page 116: The suburb of “East New York” in

Toronto– Who wants to send Valentine an e-mail about

this?

Neighbourhood-Community

• The pairing of neighbourhood with community

• Community identifying with territory & place– People may experience place this way– Planners think this way

Community

• Shared identity

• Mutually-caring

• Long-term relationships

Language Games

• Smith’s interpretation of community:– Historicity– Identity– Mutuality– Participation– Integration

Language Games

• Cater & Jones:– Proximity– Territory– Social homogeneity– Time

Language Games

• Chicago School– Community as a natural social area

Community Planning

• 1940s-1950s Planning Ethos

• Emerged in later 1920s, out of Chicago

• Used census statistics to divide cities into “communities”– could then be planned

• New urban areas planned and built as “community” units– local schools, parks, places of worship, shopping

Humphrey Carver

• 1940s Toronto community planner

• Planned Regent Park (North) as a model public housing community

Don Mills

• 1950s-era Toronto Suburb (in East New York?)

• Private subdivision scheme

• Embodied community planning principles

Place Experience

• Community and neighbourhood as place

• Britain & Ireland:– Strong sense of “Local”– Importance of the Pub as a

local gathering point

A London Pub

Killarney

• Conor O’Neill’s, Boulder Colorado

The English in Thailand

The Donut Shop

• An iconic Canadian meeting place

• Regular stage set for sketch comedy: – This Hour has 22 Minutes– Royal Canadian Air Farce– Cameo role in Wayne’s World

• A holey shrine?

The Donut Shop

• Canada has 3x the US number of donut shops per capita

• New Brunswick has 2x the Tim Horton’s stores per capita compared to rest of Canada

• Most of the expansion in Tim Horton’s chain has been in Canada

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Tim Horton’s• Starts in Hamilton ON 1964

• Merged with Wendy’s in 1995

• $2.1 US Billion in sales 2001

• 55,000+ employees in Canada

• Has 70% of Canadian market share

• Expanding revenue each store:– 1995: $1 M CDN net sales– 2001: $1.5 M CND net sales

HMCS Toronto 1998

• Stationed in the Persian Gulf

• Features in a Tim Horton’s commercial about the “taste of home”

Community in Decline?

• Common theme

• Sense of lost community– loss of community with transition from

Feudalism to Capitalism?– Tonnies: Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft?– London’s East End: the fault of redevelopment

and TV?

Community Saved?

• Some argue community thrives in industrial society– Gans: urban villagers– Suttles: thriving community in poor urban

ethnic communities

Community Liberated?

• Industrial society frees community from the bonds of locality and kinship

• Community thrives in a decentralised form– those East New Yorkers in Toronto