01:450:250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Creative Class, Fixed Capital, New Urbanism
1 Apr 2019
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Since the 1960s, the idea of a homogenous suburbia is still ingrained in the. However, this idealization is not the case for reality. There is an increase in impoverization in suburbs. We do not think this because of the built form perspective of the suburbs. E. g. it looks nice so it can"t be impoverished. The rate of poverty in suburbs is actually higher than the rate in the urban. From 1980 to 2000,# of high poverty census tracts in suburbs nearly doubled, so did number of poor people. The tipping point: in 2008, number of suburban poor exceeded number of urban poor by 1. 5 million. Number of people living in suburban poverty areas doubled from 2000 to 2010, both white and nonwhite. Driven job loss and growth of low-wage service jobs, lack of poverty. National anxiety about the the new poor in wake of the great recession.
