ENVS 2200 Chapter Notes -Veranda, Wicket-Keeper, Utopia

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

Document Summary

Urban regions iii the new urban region. In king"s excerpt, the suburb is explained as a spatially detached area from the city, with households spatially separate from each other, resulting from imperialistic and colonial ideas and policies. The modern suburbia consists of increasing commoditization and a shopping economy that changed class identities and catered the suburbia to the white middle-class and rich populous. This is evident from the three spatial forms of suburban life; the villa, the veranda, and the bungalow. All of these house-types consisted of large rooms that needed servants to look after them symbolizing a status quo of the elite. Soja"s reading adds to this view that suburbia is a voluntary residential suburbanization of the wealthy elite and has left the inner city" working class dominant and the outer city" middle-class dominant. He talks about the wealthy searching for better housing and transportation, since they could afford cars, this become the driving force of suburbanization and sprawl.