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USING POINTS AND EXAMPLES FROM THE LECTURE, DESCRIBE THE NIMBY 
RESPONSE AND THE VIEWS OF FAIRNESS INVOLVED IN THE RESPONSE. 
 
WRITING 
 
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Listen to the passage. On a piece of paper, take notes on the main points of the 
listening passage.  
(Professor) 
Although the article you read makes some convincing arguments, 
there are some gaps in the reasoning that I’d like to point out. 
First, absolutely, there are many jobs created when constructing a 
shopping center and a great deal more when staffing it. However, what 
the reading failed to point out was that those jobs usually go to people 
who don’t live in the area. Construction jobs are typically filled by skilled 
craftsmen who are on the payroll of the construction company. Unless 
the construction company is a local one, those jobs will probably be 
going to people who might live very far away from where the shopping 
center is being built. So, you see, those jobs will not go to the people of 
that community. The same can be said for the staff of the shopping 
center. Sure, some entry level, low paying jobs will be filled by people 
who live in the area, but most often the higher paying positions go to 
people who have an established relationship with the company that runs 
the shopping center and once again, they often do not live in the area. 
Secondly, small locally owned businesses have trouble competing 
because consumers are more likely to spend their money inside the 
shopping center than outside of it. In fact, many economic studies have 
proven that when a shopping center is opened in an area, the local 
economy suffers greatly because the pre-existing small businesses 
cannot compete with the lower prices, larger selection and convenience 
that can be found in the stores and restaurants in the shopping centers. 
Um…take for example the food court, you know… the area inside the 
shopping center where you can sit down and purchase food. These have 
been placed inside the centers so that the consumer has no need to 
leave. This, of course, has a considerable negative impact on the 

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restaurants around the shopping center, which often times are forced out 
of business.
Finally, having more stores does not necessarily mean greater diversity, 
like the reading passage states. This idea of diversity is false because 
the stores in the shopping centers are the chain stores that can be found 
in every other shopping mall in the country. These chains displace small, 
locally owned shops and restaurants. Diversity means unique things that 
you cannot find anywhere else. That’s the beauty of having lots of family-
run, locally owned businesses. Once these small businesses in an area 
close for good, the community will only have the shops in the shopping 
center and as a result, much less diversity than before.