Monday 7th October 2024
Cities can be considered lenses into the future as the most radical changes or changes in general especially for society occur in cities. Eg: Chicago
The Chicago school of urban sociology is formed, promenent people include: Robert park, Louis Wirth, Ernest Burgess
‘a city may be defined as a relatively large, dense, and permanent settlement of socially heterogeneous individuals’
Shock cities are cities that emerged really quickly, usually in the the late 19th century and early 20th entury
City as a spatial system:
Cities were shaped by competition between social groups, i.e: Migrants, and established ethnic groups and social classes:
Comparison with an ecosystem- invasion and succession
Also operates through land use and land values
Think: Bid rent theory (CBD centre, wealth moves outwards from the middle etc.)
Engels on the geography of Manchester talks about how the rapid industrialisation and expansion of the town has created large economic disparity/created a lot of poverty.
Charles Booth could be described the first social geographer, his work was about mapping urban inequality and reasons why. For example he mapped East and West London, which showed a very clear economic inequality.
Gentrification: An urban geographical process commonly taken to have two main attributes.
The invasion of traditional inner city working classes by middle class migrants.
The upgrading, improvement and renovation of existing housing, wether by new residents or developers.
An important change took place in urban geography during the 1970s. David Harvey and Manuel Castells argued that cities needed to be understood in relation to fundamental social and economic processes and power relationships. Particularly those associated with capitalism- property markets, the search for profit, class divisions in society, class conflict.
Cities can be considered lenses into the future as the most radical changes or changes in general especially for society occur in cities. Eg: Chicago
The Chicago school of urban sociology is formed, promenent people include: Robert park, Louis Wirth, Ernest Burgess
‘a city may be defined as a relatively large, dense, and permanent settlement of socially heterogeneous individuals’
Shock cities are cities that emerged really quickly, usually in the the late 19th century and early 20th entury
City as a spatial system:
Cities were shaped by competition between social groups, i.e: Migrants, and established ethnic groups and social classes:
Comparison with an ecosystem- invasion and succession
Also operates through land use and land values
Think: Bid rent theory (CBD centre, wealth moves outwards from the middle etc.)
Engels on the geography of Manchester talks about how the rapid industrialisation and expansion of the town has created large economic disparity/created a lot of poverty.
Charles Booth could be described the first social geographer, his work was about mapping urban inequality and reasons why. For example he mapped East and West London, which showed a very clear economic inequality.
Gentrification: An urban geographical process commonly taken to have two main attributes.
The invasion of traditional inner city working classes by middle class migrants.
The upgrading, improvement and renovation of existing housing, wether by new residents or developers.
An important change took place in urban geography during the 1970s. David Harvey and Manuel Castells argued that cities needed to be understood in relation to fundamental social and economic processes and power relationships. Particularly those associated with capitalism- property markets, the search for profit, class divisions in society, class conflict.
