Cities & Change

Question 1

cities and change

Answer 1

role of cities in social change

Question 2

city

Answer 2

large dense settlements of heterogenous individuals

Question 3

stranger

Answer 3

people you don’t know, only ‘‘categorically’’

Question 4

urban characteristics

Answer 4

many sidedness
blase attitude
money economy
punctuality
individualism

Question 5

synekism

Answer 5

stimulation of development due to proximity

Question 6

first urban revolution

Answer 6

emerge of the first cities

from subsistence to surplus

Question 7

matlhusian trap

Answer 7

technological inventions > population growth > per capita resources back to original level

Question 8

city states

Answer 8

centers of trade

centers of power

Question 9

secon urban revolution

Answer 9

rapid urban growth 19th century
industrial revolution
technological invention

Question 10

weber

Answer 10

protestant ethic

Question 11

important causes of growth

Answer 11

agricultural developments
health inventions
sewage systems
clean water
steam engine

Question 12

brown agenda

Answer 12

health of the people

Question 13

green agenda

Answer 13

health of the planet

Question 14

le corbusier

Answer 14

a house is a machine to live in
separate sectors
symmetry
funtionality

Question 15

howard

Answer 15

garden city

satelite cities

Question 16

harvey

Answer 16

urbanization as a class phenomenom

Question 17

urban decline

Answer 17

abandoning of a city that was previously functioning

Question 18

culture

Answer 18

broad: patterns of human activity
narrow: artistic expression

Question 19

diversity

Answer 19

division of labour
specialization
diversity in architecture 
mixed uses
ethnic diversity

Question 20

fainstein

Answer 20

mixed building types
mixed uses
socio-economic and racial ethnic diversity

Question 21

importance diversity

Answer 21

appeal of the urban
fosters creativity
encourages tolerance

Question 22

values for a just city

Answer 22

equity
democracy
diversity
growth
sustainability

Question 23

segregation

Answer 23

separation of groups within broader population

Question 24

disadvantages segregation

Answer 24

less opportunities job market/society
not fluent majority language
lack of facilities
negative image
lack of empathy

Question 25

advantages segregation

Answer 25

like mindedness
cultural facilites
social network
social cohesion
organized defense or protest

Question 26

explanations segregation

Answer 26

human ecology approach
factorial ecology
behavioral approach
ethnic cultural approach

Question 27

role of government segregation

Answer 27

social housing
allocation procedures
discrimination

Question 28

gentrification

Answer 28

residential movement of middle class people into low income areas, pushing out low income people

Question 29

rent gap theory

Answer 29

difference between what renters pay and the value of the building, or ground, when renovated

Question 30

types of gentrification

Answer 30

early gentrification
super-gentrification
hipsterfication
gentrification of social housing
branding of gentrification

Question 31

negative consequences

Answer 31

displacement
homogenization
disrupting local communities
small businesses cannot pay rent
moving poverty elsewhere

Question 32

the right to the city

Answer 32

the freedom to make and remake our cities

Question 33

what holds back social movements?

Answer 33

hard to grasp what’s going on
possessive individualism
urban poor have no property rights

Question 34

social movements

Answer 34

collective forms of political action forming a collective identity/purpose

Question 35

cosmopolitan canopy

Answer 35

an island of racial and ethnic civility in a sea of segregated living