SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Plastic Bottle, Oil Depletion, Apple Juice

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1101
• Professor: Stephan Larose

Document Summary

Oil depleion and the collapse of the american dream. Robert moses ny state and city oicial whose public works projects of the 30s, 40s and. 50s transformed ny city: master builder of the mid-20th century ny city. He was the most powerful man of ny city without being mayor. He was a family made that transformed land into suburb areas and displaced thousands of people and build highways. The low branches of the long island parkways he designed were highways the lead to beaches and parks, he wanted to build bridges so that trucks couldn"t get through. The parkways also wouldn"t it buses under the bridge to the beaches and parks. Bus users were poor tend to be african american this meant that moses kept the beaches for whites only without trying. Moses bridges prevented the travel of poor black new.