SOCI 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Automobile Dependency, Social Stratification, Walmart
17 Apr 2016
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Often areas that are fragile in terms of wild life or ecology (wetlands: massproduced homes. How did it emerge: public policies, taxation, transportation, housing, highway development, post wwii - a lot of rapid unplanned growth. Lots of money pumped into regrowth and development. The best canada and the usa had to offer was put to use during this time. An enormous amount of growth and opportunity: federal legislation and taxation during the time of wwii impacted the way. Canada and the usa look today: cheap loans, encouraging growth, middle class rose in size and power, ability to live far from work was created with high way development, the need for services, entertainment and shopping malls emerges. Since the post war period the cost to build. Road rage arguably was created because of sprawl sitting in car for too long drives one mildly insane . Negative health effects created through the increase use of sprawl.
