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Week 6 and terms
100
discriminatory lending practices by banks that prevented people of color and the poor from buying houses in certain neighborhoods
What is Redlining?
100
“Schiziod”, Dominated by secondary rather than primary contacts (weak vs. strong ties); “Impersonal, superficial, transitory, and segmental”; Physical contacts close but social contacts are distant
What is Wirth's definition of a "City Dweller"?
100
various discrete meanings associated with real places or regions regardless of the character in reality
What is a Place-Image?
100
knowledge and logic, of maps, mathematics, of space as the instrumental space of social engineers and urban planners, of navigators and explorers; mental construct
What is Lefebvre's "Representation of Space" or "Conceived Space"?
100
an exercise in the reduction of complexity and requires making choices about what matters and who counts; embodies a tension between purporting to represent some sort of objective reality and being unable, in the epistemological sense, to truly be able to do so.
What is News Cartography?
200
Characterizes a tension between solitude and community
What is Urbanism?
200
The idea that race relations can not be separated from where they "take place"
What does "Black matters are Spatial Matters"?
200
a relation between places, objects and people.
What is Space?
200
Journalist do this when they use cultural explanations rooted in dominant ideology through mythical characterizations and discussions of geography.
What is "Naturalizing Geography"?
200
founded on “rules, routines and institutionalized procedures” that structure “the form of the knowledge produced and the knowledge claims expressed (or implied)
What is Journalistic Epistemology or Epistemic Authority?
300
this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others... One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, and Black
What is the Double Consciousness?
300
a lived system of ideologies and values; cultural common sense. how a ruling class in a society maintains its power—not simply by military or police force but more commonly by citizens’ consent and deference to power
What is Hegemony?
300
When place and space constitute a single entity; A space where contrasting “place-images” express political conflict and struggle within the physical environment.
What is a "Contested Space"
300
What is Bryan Lee Jr.'s argument about "defensive spaces" design?
300
The measure of a person's ability to overcome the "friction of distance."
What is Extensibility?
400
an early analysis of race relations in the US that influenced the cultural, political, psychological and geographic nature of "color lines"
What is Souls of Black Folks, Of the Sons of Master and Man, by W.E.B DuBois?
400
The ability of institutions and communities to transform or convert places into space and space into places
What is enabling and dis-enabling?
400
a site identified by rules, customs, familiarity, assigned particular significance within a broader socio-spatial relationship to those who live and traverse it.
What is Place?
400
Creating and encouraging the use of outdoor public spaces VS. Histories of policing, profiling environmental hazards, and marginalization
What is the tension in the establishment of "Green Spaces" from Destiny Thomas and Brent Mock?
400
Factors like time, money, access, transportation, technology, rules and laws that determine ones ability to navigate time and space.
What are Constraints?
500
the tension between the right to be seen and heard and the right to be anonymous and left alone
What is difference vs. indifference?
500
The idea that humans not only produce social relations and use-values, but in doing so also produce social space
What is the Social Production of Space?
500
"Perceived", "Conceived", and "Lived"
What is Henri Lefebvre’s Triad of the Social Production of Space?
500
mutually militarized spaces; communities face constant surveillance and threats to the civil rights of certain residents.
What is Tanvi Misra's argument for comparing urban and border communities?
500
maps that challenge our understanding of the status quo through re-presenting situations, often injustices or overlooked phenomena.
What are Testimony Maps?