1. Neighbourhood-Community

2. 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?

3. Neighbourhood-Community The pairing of neighbourhood with community Community identifying with territory & place –People may experience place this way –Planners think this way

4. Community Shared identity Mutually-caring Long-term relationships

5. Language Games Smith’s interpretation of community: –Historicity –Identity –Mutuality –Participation –Integration

6. Language Games Cater & Jones: –Proximity –Territory –Social homogeneity –Time

7. Language Games Chicago School –Community as a natural social area

8. 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

9. Humphrey Carver 1940s Toronto community planner Planned Regent Park (North) as a model public housing community

10. Don Mills 1950s-era Toronto Suburb (in East New York?) Private subdivision scheme Embodied community planning principles

12. Place Experience Community and neighbourhood as place Britain & Ireland: –Strong sense of “Local” –Importance of the Pub as a local gathering point

13. A London Pub

14. Killarney

16. Conor O’Neill’s, Boulder Colorado

17. The English in Thailand

18. 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?

19. 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

21. 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

22. HMCS Toronto 1998 Stationed in the Persian Gulf Features in a Tim Horton’s commercial about the “taste of home”

23. 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?

24. Community Saved? Some argue community thrives in industrial society –Gans: urban villagers –Suttles: thriving community in poor urban ethnic communities

25. 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