SOCB44H3 Lecture : Week 1 Lecture
Document Summary
Cities are continued to be meaningful units of residence and identity to people. E. g. olympics are organized by country; sports teams are organized by locality (cities) We care about local sports teams, minority cares about other sports teams. People are not just citizens of cities but are part of the world. *cities are understood to have distinct lifestyles and problems* *e. g. urban vs. rural; country vs. city; urban vs. suburban* These days, a lot of people live in urban areas, not many grow up in rural areas/farms. Suburban growth after world war; people moved out of cities and into suburbs. Big cities in us were left in poor; australia was very suburban. Present era: a lot of things are changing, huge movements of population. E. g. commuting meant traveling from suburbs to downtown. Statistic show increasingly, people are commuting from one suburb to another. Suburbs are changing in many ways now: very multicultural, all immigrants settle in suburbs.
