| word | meaning | word | meaning | |
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bike trails |
used mainly by children and low-income people as a commuter zone and by fitness types as a recreational zone | North of the QEW |
those who live in Oakville who are generally characterized as 'have nots' in comparison to South Oakville (while they may actually be leading comfortable middle class lives). North and South do not necessarily correspond to geographical north and south. |
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| bike trails | encouraging fitness and alternative transportation | Oakvillian | someone who currently lives in Oakville | |
| bike trails | potentiallly dangerous | Oakvillian | someone who has lived in Oakville for a long time, or was born and raised there. Criteria vary how long you need to live in Oakville to be an Oakvillian. | |
| character | identifiable characteristic; something that makes a place different from others | Oakvillian | in certain social circles, the implication that you are rich, spoiled and sheltered. Say, "I'm from Missisauga" | |
| character | individual expression | park | a public space | |
| character | invented tradition; nostalgia | park | an area for recreation | |
| city | crowds, pollution, noise, danger, anonymity | park | the next best thing to actually being in nature | |
| city | cultural diversity, excitement, crowds, anonymity | place | an area with immediately identifiable characteristics | |
| city | the basis of consensus | place | an area with some personal significance | |
| community | to relate to others outside of one's immediate social circle, family, cultural, economic or religious circle | place | part of the name of a local shopping mall, "Oakville Place" | |
| community | under threat from development | place | if you're under 19, it's hard to find places to go to in Oakville | |
| community | cemented by private property | public | everyone | |
| commute | efficiency | public | those who feel entitled to participated in the public sphere | |
| commute | switching off | public space | not privately owned | |
| entitlement | what's good for me is by implication good for everyone else | public space | where different social classes and ethnic groups can meet | |
| familiarity | common language | public space | outside of work or home | |
| familiarity | the comfort of running into the people you know again and again | public transit | lacking in Oakville | |
| familiarity | seeing all the people you know working in the shops | public transit | something people don't use, unless they can't drive or can't afford a car | |
| Go Station | both a place and a non-place | public transit | so few people take the bus that they actually know each other | |
| growth | inevitable | recreation | to re-create onesself | |
| growth | immigration | recreation | a set of appropriate behaviours in public places | |
| growth | loss of familiarity | recreation | sports | |
| leisure | escaping routine | recreation | social management | |
| leisure | another form of routine | safety, lack of safety | varying degrees of percpetion and reality | |
| Kerr St. | a lower income neighbourhood (by Oakville standards) but also a culturally diverse one; targeted for 'revitalization' | social engineering | the faith that one mechanism (such as bylaws and other regulations), applied appropriately, will solve social problems. | |
| mini-mall | common on major intersections in Oakville, especially on Speers | social engineering | the government shouldn't tell me what to do | |
| mini-mall | occupied by immigrant populations | social engineering | people on their own won't act in the interests of the greater good; regulations are the most gentle form of coercion | |
| mini-mall | suburbia | suburbia | the basis of consensus | |
| non-place | the areas between Point A and Point B | suburbia | garden city | |
| non-place | lack of character | suburbia | urban planning inspired by the desire to 'get out' | |
| North Oakville Secondary Plan | more development | suburbia | a place to escape from | |
| North Oakville Secondary Plan | blank slate; an attempt to right past wrongs | what people want | the underlying belief that, after decades of conditioning, that people are hardwired into suburban habits (such as reliance on the car , or the single-family bungalow that has been lodged in our imaginations as an ideal). We are basically passive consumers, who must be coaxed out of our suburban bad habits through urban design--this is the only way that we will 'bite'. | |
| North Oakville Secondary Plan | a desire to work with what is already there | zone shuttle express | there is no public transit on Sundays or later in the evening, so you call a Zone Express Shuttle, 90 min. in advance. Call 849-ZONE. Note: this phone number is impossible to find in the phone book. |