Globalization and economic capital The notion of urban’ is derived from ‘urbs’ which refers to the built city and ‘civitas’ which refers to feelings, rituals, and convictions that define urban life. Sennett, R. 1990 The Conscience of the Eye, the Design and Social Life of Cities, London: Norton Company It connotes a dialectic relationship between materialism and ideas. This can be related to the ‘sense of place’ that Bourdieu refers to as ‘habitus’. He makes reference to symbolic capital – an appropriation of how things should be; that can be individualistic or collectively expressed. This concept has been well received in urban theory. Bounds, M. (2004) Urban Social Theory: City Self and Society, New York: Oxford University Press Stated with immense oversimplification, architects focus on symbolism, engineers on quality standards, urban planners on land use and zoning and landscape artists on aesthetics, environmentalists on depletion of natural resources and climatic consequences, social-cause groups on the economically marginalized and residents on saving suburbs from the degradation of neighborhood character. Symbolism has many facets but its cumulative capital does not provide a convincing wealth generation (economic capital) model as an alternative to prosper the city .
Economic capital and globalization The Industrial Revolution was accompanied by urbanization in Europe and the United States in the 19th century. Georg Simmel studied the effect of the urban environment on the individuals living in cities, arguing in the The Metropolis and Mental Life that the increase in human interaction affected relationships. The activity and anonymity of the city led a 'blasé attitude' with reservations and aloofness by urban denizens. This was also driven by the market economy of the city, which corroded traditional norms. However, people in cities were also more tolerant and sophisticated. Erving Goffman built his notion of 'civil inattention' on Simmel's work. Henri Lefebvre argued in the 1960s and '70s that urban space is dominated by the interests of corporations and capitalism. Private places such as shopping centres and office buildings dominated over public space. The economic relations could be seen in the city itself, with wealthy areas being far more opulent than the run-down parts of the poor. To fix this, a right to the city needed to be asserted to give everyone a say on urban space .
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Globalization and economic capital
Economic capital and globalization The Industrial Revolution was accompanied by urbanization in Europe and the United States in the 19th century. Georg Simmel studied the effect of the urban environment on the individuals living in cities, arguing in the The Metropolis and Mental Life that the increase in human interaction affected relationships.
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notion of urban’ is derived from ‘urbs’ which refers to the built city and ‘civitas’ which refers to feelings, rituals, and convictions that define urban life. Sennett, R. 1990 The Conscience of the Eye, the Design and Social Life of Cities, London: Norton
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Company It connotes a dialectic relationship between materialism and ideas. This can be related to the ‘sense of place’ that Bourdieu refers to as ‘habitus’. He makes reference to symbolic capital – an appropriation of how things should be; that can be individualistic or collectively expressed. This concept has been well received in urban theory. Bounds, M. (2004) Urban Social Theory: City Self and Society, New York: Oxford University Press
activity and anonymity of the city led a 'blasé attitude' with reservations and aloofness by urban denizens. This was also driven by the market economy of the city, which corroded traditional norms. However, people in cities were also more tolerant and sophisticated. Erving Goffman built his notion of 'civil inattention' on Simmel's work.
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Stated with immense oversimplification,
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architects focus on symbolism, engineers on quality standards, urban planners on land use and zoning and landscape artists on aesthetics, environmentalists on depletion of natural resources and climatic consequences, social-cause groups on the economically marginalized and residents on saving suburbs from the degradation of neighborhood character. Symbolism has many facets but its cumulative capital does not provide a convincing wealth generation (economic capital) model as an alternative to prosper the city
Henri Lefebvre argued in the 1960s and '70s that urban space is dominated by the interests of corporations and capitalism. Private places such as shopping centres and office buildings dominated over public space. The economic relations could be seen in the city itself, with wealthy areas being far more opulent than the run-down parts of the poor. To fix this, a right to the city needed to be asserted to give everyone a say on urban space