GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Milton Keynes Grid Road System, Urban Ecology, Technological Change

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne M C Godlewska

Document Summary

Model social sciences on the sciences about urban ecology (natural process) Infrastructure decline: lower income people leave because they can"t afford it. Value of land increased, even pushing residence out couldn"t afford rent. Uniform style with lawn and grid roads between 1950 and today. Rapidly changing rural landscape: coincides with urban slums and social misery. Influx of immigrants and poor blacks: they couldn"t afford to move out, exodus of wealthy. First 80 years marked public transportation: walking, ferry, omnibus: horses dying on streets and congestion, railroad: only for wealthy. 3 miles out cause railroads needed space. Railroad suburbs 50% affluent population, others served them: street car: horse drawn. Triple decker: lived at bottom and rented the two upper floors: earn more to move out. Balloon frame house: expensive beams, softwood lumber, developed in 1830s due to low skill requirement. Automobile suburbs and the drive in life style. Beat out local rail transportation in 1930s.