SOC 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Postfeminism, Sustainable Transport, News
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Produces very specific ideas of city life. Famous streets: sesame street, busy town, mr. rogers, lazy town. These representations of cities and rural life are steeped in nostalgia, one or the other. Heavily suburbanized nation; people move to suburbia specifically for their children. Idea of new urbanism: diversity, mixed neighbourhoods; race and class, mixed use; both businesses and living, sustainable transportation, more liveable, emphasis on meeting your neighbour , focuses on individuals and families at the expense of the community. Auto mobility isn"t just the means of transit but an ideology. Modern family, weeds, desperate housewives, american beauty. Coded as a female space; they"re emasculated. Where men go to have a mid-life crisis. Suburbs are where you have and raise children, cooking, etc. unpaid work of keeping humanity alive. = jobs for females; aka it is feminine. Ironic because men have a grudge/life crisis, but hold up that their work is valued (income) 1920"s to 1950"s ideal home city (
