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| Chicago School of Sociology |
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| group of scholars and students that studied under them that developed the school of sociology of Chicago. Their empirical approach to examining society i urban contexts began what is now known as urban sociology and urban geography |
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| one center of activity with different economic classes and uses outside |
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| created by Homer Hoyt (economist with FHA) as the mobile upper class move to periphery of city lower class will take up the older homes and both do so along transportation routes, resulting in a radial and not concentric growth pattern. |
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| could have mulitple CBDs but has different centers of activity |
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| didn't allow white homeowners to sell to blacks if rest of community disapproved (neighborhood improvement associations) |
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| where the racial composition of a neighborhood goes beyond a certain makeup as to where the block is a ll white or black |
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| point which you distinguish white and black communities |
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| way of protecting communities, isolating blacks into these isolated communities |
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| lending agencies not lending to minority groups because their presence would bring down property values. red because neighborhoods deemed unacceptably risky were bounded in red |
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| people effectively outside mainstream society |
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| lack of economic opportunity creates new culture for people in that commnity |
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| level of urbanization exceeding economic development |
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| levels of urbanization smaller than would be expected (think india and china) |
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| technological cities geared towards developing new technologies, in japan to ease the 'brain drain'. Jp has been in economic dump since 90s, hard to measure sucess |
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| ex colonial economy still provides resources to the metropole |
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| inefficient industries once protected by a lack of western imports under communist rule, were abandoned with the lifting of such restrictions. resulting in abandonment of hug tracts of industrial land and the workers being laid off. also major upping in the neglected industries such as service. |
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| jobs that carry a steady wage, are either govt. or through private enterprise |
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| unaccountable and unregistered activities, can be exploited, constitute most of employment in third orld, small amoun almost unnoticed in industrialized inner cities |
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| Five ways of thinking: Eveness, describes similarity of groups across neigborhoods (measured by index of dissimilarity), Exposure/Isolation, captures the typical composition of neighborhooods where group members live (measured by isolation index), Centralization, describes the degree to which group members live in nhoods close to the center of the city relative to other groups (other measures do not distinguish between segregrated groups next to each other or on opposite sides of city), concentration,extent to which a group lives in a restricted amount of urban space (high density |
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| Massey and Denton explain that a group experiences this when faces forms of segregation simultaneously |
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| Lydon Johnson, war on poverty 1964, (1) stimulate macroeconomic growth, to improve demand for low skilled labor (2)improve individuals work related skills (3)counter discriminatory or unresponsive social instituitions. Food Stamps, Job Corps. Transfer programs through medicare and social security, mostly assisted elderly. Community Action Program was an attempt to gather poor residents to lobby for govt. services they needed. |
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| Index of dissimilarity, measures the evenness of two groups across a geographic area, isolation index, probability that a group will meet |
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| an extensive metropolitan city or chain of metropolitan cities |
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| Total International Migration |
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| Czech Rep, estonia, hungary, latvia, lithuania, poland, slovakia, slovenia |
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