GEOG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Robert D. Putnam, Richard Florida, Postmodern Philosophy
15 Oct 2018
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Putnam - the main cause of decline in social capital formation according to putnam - television. Jane adams - innovated the study by looking at slum populations (settlement movement) the basis of this studies is neighbour improvement/lively hood women were excluded from the thinking of cities. Analysing the conditions of the neighbour to improve the neighbourhood. People are always willing to trade space for time -bigger home, longer commute ,older homes lose value and become populated with poorer people. Evolution of cities - technoburb - high office buildings, inner city,diverse city community,edge cities (airdrie) industrial areas and fan parks. Different types of land use with yield different amounts of rent - lowest houses (idealized concentric ring model) Agglomeration - advantages of businesses being clustered together, competition , disadvantage traffic -multi nuclei city. Spatial segregation is unique to the 20th century but social segregation is unique to the colonial times.
