EUS 202 Lecture Notes - Blue-Collar Worker, Political Evolution, Deindustrialization

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Environment and Urban Sustainability
• Course: EUS 202
• Professor: Christopher Greene

Document Summary

Eus component 1: lecture slide notes [slides 1-22] Urbanism: particular set of functionally integrated institutions which were first devised to mediate the transformation of relatively egalitarian, ascriptive, kin structured groups into socially stratified, politically organized, territorially based societies. It is a community of substantial size and population density that shelters a variety of non agricultural specialists, including a literal elite. Nomadic (traveling by hunting, fishing, gathering) to sedentary (settled agriculture) Volume and reliable food supports higher numbers. Environmental factors make regions more desirable (climate, water availability, conditions, topography, availability, and other nature resources) Technological developments storing, water, domestication of plants and animals. Social organization managing population growth, resources and trade. More food produced = larger population could be supported. Managing and distributing increased food supply = organized and centralized social structures. Emergence of a stratified class system (wealthy elites drove development i. e. palaces, arenas, monuments) Development of jobs = craftsmen, engineers, administrators)