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| A relatively large urban area situated on the outskirts of a city, typically along major roads. |
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| a form of residential community or housing estate containing strictly-controlled entrances for pedestrians, bicycles, and automobiles, and often characterized by a closed perimeter of walls and fences. |
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| Social relations between individuals, based on close personal and family ties; community |
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| Social relations based on impersonal ties, as duty to a society or organization |
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| - absorption into a single firm of several firms involved in the same level of production and sharing resources at that level. |
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| The Concentric ring model also known as the Burgess model is one of the earliest theoretical models to explain urban social structures. |
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| common-interest developments |
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| A project composed of individually owned units that share usage and financial responsibility for common areas. (condos/apartments) |
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| - is an extended city or town area comprising the built-up area of a central place (usually a municipality) and any suburbs linked by continuous urban area. |
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| The expansion of an urban or industrial area into the adjoining countryside in a way perceived to be disorganized and unattractive |
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| the extreme concentration of underprivileged groups in the inner cities. |
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| processes by which new immigrants move to a city and domanate or take over a area or neighoborhoods occupied by older immagrent groups |
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| a very large urban agglomeration of at least 10 million inhabitants |
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| - The approach to city growth that assumes a city has several centers, each of which specializes in some activity and gives its distinctive cast to the surrounding area. |
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is the leading city in its country or region, disproportionately larger than any others in the urban hierarchy
sector model- based on 149 US cities, an urban land-use model which accounts for transport routes within the city. Suggests that industry and the wealthy make the first land-use decisions and the poor get whatever is left. |
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| the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group. |
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| is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual |
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| is a regional boundary, set in an attempt to control urban sprawl by mandating that the area inside the boundary be used for higher density urban development and the area outside be used for lower density development. |
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| a specific organizational form of industrial production |
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| Recognition that we live in a single world system, based on a capitalist world economy, which emerged in the sixteenth century, committed to production for sale, with the object of maximizing profits rather than supplying domestic needs. |
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| how does sprawl hurt cities |
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1 It erodes the city’s tax base.
2 It destroys downtown commerce.
3 It increases unemployment and concentrates poverty in urban centers. |
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| What is ideal city for Weber |
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1 a relative predominance of trade and commercial relations
2 some degree of political autonomy
3 a related form of association |
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| the social psychology of city life |
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| According to Marx, social institutions are determined by |
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| as distance from the Central Business District increases, rents decrease |
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| five common elements in urban images according to Lynch are |
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| districts, edges, landmarks, nodes, and paths |
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| the upper class, the white collar workers, the petite bourgeoisie, and the manual working class |
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| the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the Northeast, Midwest, and West |
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| Where did most african americans live in 1800s |
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| since 1960s immigrants to the US |
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| Latin Americans, Asians, Not Europe Not White |
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| Fastest growing non white population |
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| Female participation in labor force was very limited among |
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| upper and middle class women throughout the 19th century |
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| Who did Johnson Reed Act of 1924 limit immigration of |
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| targeted southern and eastern europeans |
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