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URBAN LIVEABILITY (POSSIBILITIES: FRIENDSHIP (Thrift, 2005) (Friendship…
URBAN LIVEABILITY
PROMINENCE
Origins from post-war reconstruction in Europe (Pacione, 2009). Planners had a tabula rasa to re-build cities with better QOL. Conceptual origins from West.
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(Pacific) Asia
(Douglass, 2002)
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Rise of economies was at the expense of ecological destruction, not matched w QOL
Now a concern because:
- Democratization and corresponding rising demands from civil society groups (links to Castells (1983) and grassroots urban social movements)
- QOL and the environment are becoming important in attracting investment
Welcomed corrective. Goes beyond just EG. BUT it is also bound up in post-low wage manufacturing growth
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POSSIBILITIES: FRIENDSHIP (Thrift, 2005)
Urban lives and social relations (e.g. friendship) as a starting point for thinking about liveability
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Macropolitics of urban care (volunteers, organisations) and micropolitics of productivity (kindness in everyday actions)
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POSSIBILITIES: CITIES OF WELCOME AND GENEROSITY (Darling, 2011)
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Caveat
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Link to HK Filipino protestors and Ong & Roy (2004), not really 'cross-class solidarities'
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