ENVS 2200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Smog, Deindustrialization

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

Document Summary

Sprawl is a term to describe a particular type of urban development in current urban regions. However, sprawl emerged from much longer histories of suburbanization. Discuss with respect to at least two different periods. Sprawl can be decribed a the urban region with low density development that is auto- dependent and has a mono-functional (opposite of mixed use) way of life with little or no public space. Sprawl emerged during the periods of the industrial revolution and the post- war capitalism which gave rise to social, spatial and economic restructuring of global cities. Citybuilding was planned and plotted called controlled suburban sprawls. Speculative buildings arrived before available jobs, usually was while suburbs but then when labour was needed, it became racially mixed suburbs: suburb = bourgeois utopia of low density, no commerce of industry and low working class, suburb were socially middle upper class dominated and the urban city was mostly wage labor working class dominanted.