HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Residential Segregation In The United States
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Semester 2, lecture 8: wednesday march 7th, 2012. All colonial cities become centers of greater gender imbalance. This space was constructed as a male space and european and asian space more. Increased female migration to towns almost everywhere after wwii than an african women space: the women move into these spaces to join husbands and respond to economic and educational opportunities. Urbanization takes place under specific and sometimes changing modes of social and economic organization: there is no static way. Development of urbanization, the spaces were not separate from the organization of capital. In these spaces, were the development of capitalist social relations and production. Urbanization during the colonial period involved the establishment of new colonial cities and the transportation of old cities. Cities were located around sea ports, railway tracks, or in the interior: strategic points as centers for commerce and administration.