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Title: Urban Development, Suburbanization, and the Built Environment


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Urban Development, Suburbanization, and the Built
Environment
  • Soc 205Y
  • 3 October 2007

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Todays class
  • Urban Development, Suburbanization, and the Built
    Environment
  • Should have read 1 journal article, 2 book
    chapters, and a wikipedia entry
  • We will watch part of the film The End of
    Suburbia in hour 2
  • Test 1 on November 14 in class

3
Readings for Today
  • Wirth, L. (1938). Urbanism as a Way of Life.
  • Fishman, Robert. "Megalopolis Unbound." from
    Metropolis Center and Symbol of our Times.
  • "Introduction" in Sorkin, Michael, ed. Variations
    on a Theme Park The New American City and the
    End of Public Space. New York Hill and Wang,
    1992. (CR)

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Urbanism as a way of life
  • Classic piece in urban sociology
  • Urban lifestyle
  • Function of population density, size,
    heterogeneity
  • Characterized by what?
  • Chicago school of Urban Sociology
  • Focused on forms of cities, their development,
    and the outcomes of people competing for unequal
    spaces
  • Park
  • McKenzie
  • Burgess
  • Have urban areas passed these modern conceptions
    by?

5
Megalopolis Wikipedia
  • Megalopolis (city type), an extensive
    metropolitan area or a long chain of continuous
    metropolitan areas
  • First used by Jean Gottman in 1957 to describe
    the U.S. Eastern seaboard from Boston to
    Washington, D.C.
  • Megalopolis are the result of fundamental changes
    in work and social habits

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Chapter Megalopolis Unbound
  • Decentralization Foresight of Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Megalopolis?
  • Unbound?
  • How did it get this way?
  • Implications for city life, experiences, and
    outcomes for urban dwellers?
  • Is the megalopolis different in Canada?

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Variations on a theme park
  • Anywhere is everywhere
  • Commodization of space
  • Style, Signs, and substance
  • Increasing segregation and emphasis on security
  • Source of information and culture is
    fundamentally transformed
  • Designer communities intended to particular
    demographic groups with particular interests

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Other Relevant Books
  • Fantasy city (Hannigan)
  • Learning from Las Vegas (Venturi)
  • Community Safety and Security in an Insecure
    world (Bauman)
  • Metropolitics (Orfield)
  • City Form and Everyday Life Torontos
    Gentrification and Critical Social Practice
    (Caulfield)
  • Heat Wave (Klinenberg)
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