GGR111H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Class Conflict, Sober Living Houses, Typhoid Fever
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Social trends and the social geography of the city. Economic restructuring involves a relative decline in manufacturing employment and an increase in service employment, is characteristic of many cities in post- industrial societies. Changes in age structure and family and household formation, such as a decrease in the percentage of younger age groups and an increase in the percentage of the elderly population, are also typical of cities in post-industrial societies. Increased internationalization, with growing proportions of immigrants coming from asia, africa, the middle east, the caribbean, and latin america and decreasing proportions from traditional european source areas, is another trend in many countries. Redlining: a spatially discriminatory practice favoured by nancial institutions that identi ed parts of the city regarded as high risk in terms of loans for property purchase and for home improvement. The affected areas were typically outlined in red on maps. Areas that experience red lining will experience a decline in property values.
