The Creative Class
The District
The School
Soja, Thirdspace
100
This city ranks as the #1 top creative city in the U.S.
What is San Francisco
100
Becattini's framework is based off industrial districts in this country.
What is Italy.
100
This city and surrounding area made for a particularly good environment for reconstructing urban theory; seen as exemplary of the new urban model emerging in the mid-1980’s from a new round of social and economic changes taking place in the country.
What is Los Angeles?
100
Three spaces that Soja describes in his work.
What are patial practice (perceived space) embraces production and reproduction. Materialized and socially produced, limits to measurement and description. Representations of space (conceived space) dominant space in any society with epistemological power primary space of Utopian thought and vision spaces of representation (lived space) “complex symbolisms, coded” directly lived space by inhabitants and users / strategic location from which to encompass, understand
200
Most cities that attract the Creative Class are small cities. This city is an exception.
What is Chicago
200
Incorporating more and more levels of production for a product, achieves this type of integration.
What is Vertical
200
The empirical studies of this school of thought are the result of a theoretical process that includes various aspects of postfordist restructuring, ranging from the changes taking place in industrial organizations to the emergence of new urban forms and social practices.
What is the Los Angeles School?
200
Incorporate the concept of Aleph to Lefevre's The Production of Space.
Lefebvre's space does not have a finite quality or quantity. The Aleph can be used to describe these characteristics because it is the space where all places are, capable of being seen from every angle, common but wholly seen and understood like unimaginable universe.
300
These communities are places where people can find opportunity, build support structures, be themselves, and not get stuck in any one identity.
What are Plug-and-Play Communities
300
This is where the industrial district sells its products because it produces more than it can sell within the district.
What is the global market.
300
This study is seen as ending the study of L.A. as a marginal exception to the American economic landscape, expanding the measures to the broader region, and defining the rapid rates of growth in the L.A. area between 1970-1980.
What is the 1981 Security Pacific report?
300
How is double illusion different than the realistic illusion?
Double illusion fuses three spaces where as the realistic illusion only defines the world by mechanistic materialism or empiricism.
400
Places that grow up and prosper in one era and find it difficult and often times impossible to to adopt new organizational and cultural patterns, regardless of how beneficial they might be suffer from ______.
What is “institutional sclerosis”
400
His special function lies in translating all the capabilities which are latent in the historical heritage of the district into products that can be sold in that market.
Who is the pure entrepreneur
400
This school of thought gets criticism from the Los Angeles School, being seen as too focused on the urban as an independent object of analysis, and whose only goal was to analyze and understand the city as an autonomous organism.
What is the Chicago School?
400
Fill in the blank: "Thirdspace never _____ alone, totally _____ separate from its precedents, or given absolute ____ on its own." Explain what this means.
Thirdspace involves deconstruction of the status quo and construction of a new order yet it is unstable space because the power relations within it are constantly challenged.
500
Bland, uninteresting places with identical office complexes, freeways clogged with cars, cookie-cutter housing developments, and strip-malls sprawling in every direction
What is a "nerdistan"
500
Moving from pure agent to pure inter-mediator weakens the link with the district and strengthens the link with the final consumer, this results in becoming one of these.
What is a Buying Office.
500
This phrase is what Marco Cenzatti says can be seen as the compound relationship between text and context in urban study dialogue. It is subject to the multitude of understandings, perspectives, and real life experiences, speaking to the pact that all models are partial.
What is the urban text?
500
Name one possible misunderstanding of Thirdspace from the reading.
The conception of Thirdspace has provided a focus for our cultural practices and social space. Understanding the Thirdspace as merely a different or new space due to the social and historical interactions or the movement to a new physical place is not helpful as a framework. The idea of Thirdspace must be reified.
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