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John Saunders - "Of Strikes, Subways and the Big-Box University: Reconsidering the Spatial Fixations of Infrastructure"
Abstract:
This short paper addresses questions of redevelopment and reterritorialization through infrastructure investment and expansion. I argue that the strike at York University can be understood as not just a sector-based response to neo-liberal restructuring of post-secondary education, but also as a potential threat to the economic and regional stability currently proposed by municipal, regional, provincial and federal governments. Through renewed investment in public transit (notably the proposed extension of the Toronto Transit Commission's subway system beyond city limits into the municipality of Vaughan), growing residential development (on and off campus), and a move away from industrial to service and white collar employment, a coordinated strategy of urban development emerges as a means of stabilizing economic uncertainty. Here, education, transportation and economic development combine as a sort of infrastructural fix to the current crisis of capital.
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