SOC263H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Trailer Park, Richard Florida, Deinstitutionalisation
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New york was the murder capital of the nineteenth century world as it filled with immigrant ghettos-irish, jewish, and italian. Over the twentieth century, us urban problems were particularly shaped by migration and deinstitutionalization. African americans came to dominate harlem in manhattan and then to share the area of the. Bronx directly across the harlem river with poor latino groups (cid:862)i(cid:374)stitutio(cid:374)al ghettos(cid:863): a (cid:272)ombination of low-income, public policy, and community hostility kept non-white urban groups concentrated in certain areas, of many urbanities towards the suburbs. The employees that remained in downtowns were often the so-called fire-enterprises: finance, insurance, and real estate businesses. Inner-city residents turn to informal economic activities, which often included drug trafficking and other illegal enterprises. The central city became a place of danger and mystery for suburbanites and a place of danger and degradation for its residents. The making and unmaking of the post-industrial city.