SOCI 4620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Infill, Urban Decay, Milieu Therapy
24 Apr 2021
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Lecture 4: the social life of the city- root shock and. Individual level: trust, anxiety, stress, relationships, community level, community bonds, dispersion, we all had our own social roles. "unseen actor"-> really understand what came before that. Superblocks: no walkability, paths that lead and go nowhere. "small town social qualities" (jacobs, 16: single use zoning, unchangeable uses, residential separate from commercial. Connection: root shock shows why we should care about failing cities, root shock demonstrates harms that are either difficult or impossible to undo, realities of racism, classism, and paternalism, realities of resilient communities and people. Fullilove uses the example of the african american community in the us that has been repeatedly displaced for over 70 years. The result: confusion, disorder, loss of sense of place, community collapse. Culture, and social bonds and leads to root shock: create collective trauma (impacts whole populations and cultures, destroys "ways of being in place"
