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| Human Ecolological Theory |
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| urban growth modelling, social area analysis |
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| Shevky and Bell contributions |
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| map the city based on: social rank, urbanization, and segregation |
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| Robert Park contributions |
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| "Human Communities":1) web of life 2) struggle for existence 3) community 4) balance of nature |
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| Rober McKenzie contributions |
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| Ecological Processes: 1) centralization 2) decentrlalization 3) segregation 4) invasion 5) succession |
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| Urban-Community Studies characteristics |
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| participant observation, ethnography |
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| Interactionist chatacteristics |
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| network analysis, participant observation |
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| Kevin Lynch contributions |
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| "the image of the city": 5 elements to make sense of the city: 1) districts 2) conscious of the "edge" 3) paths/nodes 4) landmarks |
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| Lyn Lofland contributions |
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| "A world of strangers": how do people deal with the city?: 1) create a home territory 2)create an urban village 3) create temporary mobile homes ALSO: interacton in the city governed by: 1) cooperative motility 2) civil innattention 3) audience prominence 4) restrain helpfulness 5) ignore diversity |
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| political economy characteristics |
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| grounded historical case study |
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| socio-spatial model: 1) regional perspective 2) settlement space --> globalization 3) city life affected by government and real-estate |
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| social contructionist characteristics |
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| discourse analysis: how are peple talking/writing about something? |
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| social constructionist theory: how places are defined by people (R. Shields) Vancouver's China Town |
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| Emile Durkheim contributions |
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"Division of labor": Normative integration: (mechanical solidarity, shared norms.) to
Functional integration: (organic solidarity, interdependece.) |
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| Robert Merton contributions |
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| V. Gordon Childe Contributions |
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what is a city?: 1) larger/denser 2) full time specialists 3) sciences art writing 4) taxation 5) formation of the state 6) monumental public buildings 7) emergence of formal trade 8) some kind of structure development.
CIVILIZATION |
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| preindustrial cities, industrial cities, commercial cities, corporate cities |
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| : 95/5% cities formed in breaks of transportation (sjoberg) |
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| industry is established, change in farm technology (mechanization of agriculture), peple began to move to the cities. |
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| trade, manufacturing, from ports to the center, differentiation of land use, immigrants in their own areas |
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| decentralization of economic activity, HQs in cities but manufacturing moved out, decentralization, changing role for the center of the city. |
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| 1) decimation of population 2) destruction of culture 3) development of cities based on inappropriate economy 4) political instability 5) national boundaries established (but paid no attention to population: problem) |
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| What constitutes a world city?: |
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| link nation state to the world economy, disproportionate share of HQs, growing elite, global centers of communication and transportation, major sites for international investment, social polarization (growing disparity) |
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1) hyper rationality: life is rational and planned out
2) dedifferentiation: spheres didnt overlap, but now they do (golf gangs, interviews with clients, etc) |
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1) grouplessness 2) people have multiple identities 3) homogenization
-blending of culture and finance
-Abrahamson: media, as a result of mergers and takeovers are controlled by 7 conglomerates. |
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| Herbert Spencer contributions |
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| barbaric to civilized, laissez faire mentality, end result is peace and harmony |
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| Max Weber city definition: |
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| 1) complex DOL 2) law/court of its own 3) autonomy 4) commercial hub 5) fortification |
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| Robert Redfield contributions |
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| "Religion is the opiate of the people" explored capitalism in the role of urbanization |
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| "unheavenly city": logic of metropolitan growth: 1) demographic: grow out or up 2) technological 3) economics |
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| Jane Jacobs contributions |
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| countries develop better with trade relations like themselves bla ba bla... |
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-composite economic index
-cultural industries economic index |
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"metropolis and mental life": explores stimulus overload,his def of a city: 1) complex DOL 2) density 3) rationality 4) heterogeneity 5) size
-cities are superficial, "we have a limited reservoir of energy" |
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| "Decline of the West": small towns had soul, city bankrupt themselves, breed feminine revolution which he is opposed to |
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| Robert Park contributions |
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"the city: suggestions for....." characteristics of the city as an ORGANISM: 1) order happens by itself 2) interdependece of parts 3) geo of city affects the DOL 4) crossed loyalties 5) impossible to make unifrom standards (deviance)
-"human communities" |
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