GEOG 250 Study Guide - Final Guide: Complex Number, Racialization, Urban Structure
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Metropolis comes from the greek meter (mother) + polis (city) Jean gottman saw the separate cities and suburbs of the u. s. east coast coalescing into an entirely new kind of city: megalopolis. The desakota: from the indonesian words kota (town) + desa (village). Regions of mixed agricultural and non- agricultural activities in corridors between big cities. For ed soja, los angeles is exopolis -- the city without, where centrality is available everywhere. Urban ecologists are convinced that the complex division of labor maintains community ties, across even the largest of metropolis. Since the 1960s, there has been optimism that transportation and communications technologies would sustain community without propinquity (proximity). Where urban ecologists see equilibrium, new urban theorists see inequality, injustice, and power. Race: a system of social classification that identifies members of a group who are seen as having specific physical traits that set them off as different.
