housing
A spatially segregated unit characterized by walls, security, and a perception of safety.
what is a fortified enclave?
Non-collective but prolonged direct action
What is quiet encroachment?
A practice that helped to sustain segregation by refusing mortgages/loans to someone because they live in an area deemed to be a poor financial risk.
A concept that examines how racial difference is produced and how that relative valuation gets operationalized.
What is racial capitalism?
What is the best class I've ever taken?
This concept provides accounts of the slum as a space of habitation and livelihood.
What is subaltern urbanism?
A form of citizenship when the agenda of mobilization is about rights to the city.
What is insurgent citizenship?
What is blockbusting?
This analytical framework has been hugely influential within feminist movements and, more recently, environmentalist movements.
What is intersectionality?
A subfield and conceptual approach that understands urbanization as a socio-ecological process
What is urban political ecology?
People do not choose to live in slums
What is a misconception about slums?
This theorist described the right to the city as a "cry and a demand".
Who is Henri Lefebvre?
This infrastructural network facilitated white flight and segregation.
What is the federally funded highway system?
David Harvey describes this urban planner as having taken "a meat axe to the Bronx"
Who is Robert Moses?
This term captures how capitalism depends on urbanization, and urbanization depends on capitalism.
What is capitalist urbanization?
• Urbanization requires the surplus product that capitalism perpetually creates via profit seeking.
• Capitalism needs urbanization to absorb this surplus:
A model of planning and system of governance that became increasingly untenable after the Holocaust in Europe, and the Civil Rights movement in the US?
What is Apartheid?
This equation describes how waste is pressed into commodity production.
What is W - (M - C - M') - W'?
A response to the need for affordable housing taken by low-income residents in Sao Paolo's hinterlands.
What is auto-construction?
The reconstruction of the city in order to absorb surplus capital and labor.
What is the Haussmanization of Paris?
A provision in the deed of a house prescribing that it cannot be or must be sold to persons of a particular race.
What is a race-based restrictive covenant?
A requirement in the 2001 Supreme Court decision Alexander v Sandoval.
What is proof of discriminatory intent?