Urbanization
Urbanization arises as a community increasingly adopts this phenomenon that involves individuals each pursuing different roles.
What is specialization?
With a population of over 50,000 people, this phenomenon features many smaller communities and municipalities that benefit from the same resources as the core city.
What are Metropolitan Statistical Areas?
Kenneth Jackson argues that this 20th century law was passed because of issues with existing highways and rising transportation costs.
What is the 1956 Federal Aid Highway Act?
This urban sociologist viewed cities as potentially liberating because they allowed specialization
Who is Karl Marx?
This data tool allows users to manage, analyze, manipulate, and visualize spatial information.
What is Geographic Information System (GIS)
Social scientists largely agree that this concept, which ranks people based on identity and roles, is specific to the urban experience.
What is hierarchy?
These limit urban sprawl, conserve nature, and focus development within the existing city by creating a stark line around the urban core.
What are Urban Growth Boundaries?
Through his "Die Stadt" essay, Max Weber defined this concept as an idealistic construction of a city and supported the comparison of cities across space and time.
What is the "full urban community"?
This urban sociologist conceptualized a spectrum of urban settlement lifestyles, gemeinschaft and gesellschaft, contrasting small tight-knit villages with rampant individualism in city life.
Who is Ferdinand Tonnies?
Sjoberg views these as places where culture and values persist through generations and all people contribute to agricultural production.
What are folk villages?
Logan and Molotch theorized that this phenomenon, which brings a coalition of city stakeholders together to drive economic growth, is the cause of conflicts in the city.
What is the Urban Growth Machine?
These spaces generate their own tax base to fund their own local improvements.
What are Business Improvement Districts?
This urbanist views city dwellers as inherently rational, stratified, and diverse in culture and values.
Who is Hannerz?
This urban sociologist contrasted mechanical solidarity with organic solidarity.
Who is Emile Durkeim?
This occurs when a region shifts its main industries.
What is economic restructuring?
Political interests (like developers) pursue strategies like providing carpool services and building near transit to cope with this phenomenon.
What is sprawl?
This approach considers the world's cities based on the way they each structure "core command centers".
What is World Systems Analysis?
He developed the monocentric city model, which would be refuted by the multiple nuclei model.
Who is Robert Park?
This urban sociologist commented on people's excessive visual stimuli in cities, noting how they constantly filter their environment. He also theorized their longing for recognition amidst the chaos.
Who is Georg Simmel?
A planning ideology that seeks to create sustainable and equitable communities through land use principles that generate diverse housing options and mixed-use communities.
What is Smart Growth?
Cities in this historical time and place were known for trade-driven growth and the development of a merchant middle class.
What is Medieval Europe?
Disparaging names given to car-centric residential development.
What are dingbats and snout houses?
In contrast to European cities as the time, he characterized 19th century American cities as being more similar to and having less cultural dominance over the countryside.
Who is Rybzcynski?
This urban sociologist was known to have conceptualized slums, saying "In the industrial epoch alone has it become possible that the worker scarcely freed from feudal servitude could be used as mere material"
Who is Fredrich Engels?
This city layout features streets that concentrically extend outward from a defined center.
What is a radial city?