GEOG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Racialization, The Saturday Evening Post
15 Oct 2020
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These features of space influence their desirability and development. The nature of the development depends on the acts of social institutions. Locational principles- bid, cultural meaning, strategic importance, etc. Spatial organization (where things are) occurs because human societies value that space: the u. s. defense highway act, 1950s, racial geography. Turned to the university, conceptual models guide planning. For about 50 years, chair of geography had 2 offices. The chicago model: spatial organization, spatial structure, processes that caused it. Concentric zone or ecological zone model of the 1920s. Academics asked to participate with city planning to explain chicago"s spatial growth and patterns. Concentric zones model (burgess or straight-line assimilation model) Concentric zones (ecological niches) in urban expansion. Concepts: accessibility and centrally= keys, population pressure forces expansion, ses fluidity (horatio alger myth), transportation (technology) and expansion. Dehumanizing the group less: less than human (animalistic).
