ENVS 2200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Intercity Transit, Utopia, Post-Fordism

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 2200
• Professor: Stefan Kipfer

Document Summary

Traditional cities: walled, inwards facing courtyard, multiple extended families, spatially dense, transportation by animals. Modern cities: capitalist lands and property ownership, non-animal transportation, auto-mobile oriented, planned to western rationality. Suburbia = increasing commoditization, shopping economy, places of transforming class identities. Essence of modern suburb is physical, social, and spatial separation. Suburb is spatially separate from city, and each household spatially separated from the others. Imperialism had an impact on shaping of space and build form in colonies but also on metropole at home. Colonial improvement trusts influenced the ideas and policies in utah and development. Ex- colonial administrators = managers in utah and developments colonies used as sources of cheap labor for example policy = assisted migration from britain to australia. An example: three spatial forms from other cultures to giving you meanings to suburban life the villa, the veranda and the bungalow.