URBAN
The process of becoming urban
Urbanization
The mass migration of white people from city centre to suburbs
White flight
Second hallmark of capitalism: Capitalism is a mode of production organized to produce this, its "beating heart".
surplus value
This event in the mid-1800s devastates farming in the U.S. South
American Civil War
A period (1930s-1970s) marked by large-scale, government-supported redevelopment initiatives aimed at modernizing cities, clearing so-called "blighted" areas, and addressing urban decline.
Urban renewal
A way of addressing declining profits geographically, by moving production to cheaper locales.
Spatial fix
Land, labour, capital
Means of production
This facilitated the growth of European cities through the massive influx of raw materials to the metropole.
Colonialism
The right of all urban citizens to access and participate in the making of the city.
Right to the City
Zones set up to attract foreign investors and companies with incentives (e.g. tax breaks) that make it extremely cheap to operate there (e.g. in Tijuana).
Export Processing Zones
A system of open fields, pastures, and forests used collectively by villagers for the cultivation of crops, grazing, collection of fuel and timber, etc..
Commons
This precipitates mass migration from rural to urban areas in the 1800s.
Enclosure
The population of northern cities swells as millions of Black Americans reach Chicago, New York, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis in what's known as this.
The Great Migration
This type of urban geography maintains that cities are fundamentally unequal spaces.
CRITICAL urban geography
When exchange value > use value
commodification
Set of laws passed in late 19th-early 20th century to secure white power following abolition
Loosely knit set of municipal government and citizen group initiatives, from the late 1890s to the end of the First World War.
Urban Reform
The relationship between industrialization and urbanization is _______________ specific.
Geographically
Wage
This financial event resulted in the devastation of cities, prompting the federal government to respond with the New Deal.
Great Depression