GEOG 002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Feng Shui, Geopolitics
15 Jul 2020
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The suburban ideal became the american dream during 1950s. A house in the suburbs was not just a home; it was the symbol of achievement of material success, status, social success (p. 66) Developers build new houses in the suburbs, and they ignore housing stock in the city. As manufacturing and retail commerce moved to suburbs, the inner city lost jobs and their tax base. Federal money goes into building highways and roads out of the city, and urban public transit is left to deteriorate. 1) income determined both ones ability to leave the city and the specific place in the suburb where one would wind up. 2) cities disproportionately lost their affluent, their middle class, and even the better paid segment of the working class. 3) suburbanization sorted citizens not only by income buy also by race and ethnicity. Exurbia/exurban sprawl: subdivisions on the very edge of urban fridge and newly carved out of desert, prairie, or forest.
