SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Roppongi Hills, Vehicle Insurance, Ernest Burgess

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Cities were mixed (rich and poor: mass transit arrives- street cars, suburban living (19th century) horse pulling cart, creating suburbs. Houses with yards on street car lines: boston in 1880. It grows outward based on street car lines system of organized space is made, now class is being defined: end of 19th century brought electricication, ernest burgess: developed a theory for what cities look like. By the time this was released people had cars. Urban space has become specialized (china town, little sicily, slums exct. ) Movie palace: henry ford: democratizing automobiles. Produces suburbs: levitown- huge suburb in long island, model for new suburban world, car distinguishes a status, postwar abundance. Best"s favorite photo- tells his family history: cars transform the economy. First indoor mall in minesota built in the middle of a corn field: boston at the same time is becoming a large complex network of roads. Center city combat zone : conrtroband, nudity, crime.