SOCIOL 1A06 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Gentrification, Capital Accumulation, Definable Set
28 Mar 2017
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People will always strive to match their choices with their needs. Demography: the study of populations; their size, distribution, and composition o. In preindustrial city, significant growth was stopped by high birth rate and high death rate: only when death rate began to fall did the industrial city thrive o. Re-industrialization of the central city, growth of the multiethnic city, etc. Urban experience is constrained by the nature of the physical environment or by demographic forces, but also by changing configuration of international, national, and local economic arrangements o. Emergence of globalized economy has had profound implications for north. Resulted in an increasing polarization between rich and poor. Three elements of prime importance characterized preindustrial cities: o. Existence of a food surplus in fertile valleys: achievement of literacy among scribes, priests, other elite members o. Population issues and urban growth: the demographic transition. The change from high-to-low birth and death rates that characterized modernization, industrialization, and urbanization o.
