CITB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Urban Sociology, Economic Globalization, Social Inequality
Review: cities and globalization
-sars, there are strong ties and the geography showed the dispersal and concentration
-the geographical dimensions of economic globalization- dispersal and concentration
-global cities as sites of command and control functions of the economy
-WRITW
week 5
urban space and morphology
two approaches to urban research
development of urban systems vs intra-urban dynamics
-all cities in a geographic area, relationship and relative importance
-urban systems are relationships and relative significane of cities in a geographic area
-changes in Toronto at structures and changes in a specific city
intra urban dynamics
-factors that influence geographically for urban space
class discussion
-what is the shape of Toronto city region?
-what are the dominant growth patterns of the greater Toronto area?
-where does growth occur?
-is this growth planned or unplanned?
1. Typographical boundary that contains the urban growth
a. Outward movement
b. Sprawing region: various growth centers, identified by the province because they
want to intensify and develop
i. There are attempts to redirect the growth and the sprawling dimensions
of Toronto region
ii. How else is the province trying to contain the sprawling growth? There is
a greenbelt which is off limits for development, province is trying to
contain this
iii. Residential intensification around STC, see development happening along
the avenues
iv. Is the growth planned or unplanned? Is the changes to the space is the
city, is this wanted or unwanted?
Concentric ring model
-explain the growth of cities, physical growth
-reading 1. 1925 ernest
-key propoets of iportae shool “Chiago shool of ura soiology)
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-basic university of Chicago that published work on theory
-introduced the concentric ring model, influential from the 1920s and 30s onward in
explaining urban growth
-both spacially and also social
-CBD (driving the area on the whole with businesses ex. Downtown Toronto)
-zone of transition (immigrants)
-residential (immigrants from zone of transition move in)
-central business district shapes or affects the growth of the city, importance is given to the
core of the cities
-argument is primacy emmates out of the cbd
-zone of transition (factoris, manufacturing also contained low quality housing)
-between commercial and manufacturing railway yards
-chicago was linking the midwest (agriculture of US) where main agricultural land is,
Chicago is at the eastern end
-chiacago was important note that linked booming economy to the seaborn
-railway was a city with a lot of waterhouses
-magnet for immigrants at that time, Chicago was a boom town
-early arrivals were settled in the least desirable areas in the cities, like warehouses and
slaughterhouses
-as people move up the social ladder they move out, see that not just a geographic
representation it is also a social depiction
-used concepts from natural science, called process of moving up called succession
sector model hoyt 1939
-different from concentric model
-hoyt was influenced by above
-he said if we look at cities we see outward progression like transportation vectors emanating
from the core outward they influence urban development
-purple slices are the factories and industries not just in the central business distric
-they emerged in the railway lines, see a specific form of urban development along the
railway lines
-working class housing least desirable place to live
multiple nucleri model (harris and Ullman 1945)
-eliminated the linear outward progression
-not just the central business district but we see other points of centrality across the regions
-much more fragmented urban region with multiple points of centraility
chicago school of urban sociology vs los angeles school of urbanism
-ernest burgess (1925) the growth of the city: an introduction to a research project
-michael dear (2002) the los angeles school of urbanism: an intellectual history
-if the Chicago school was representated of modernist way
-lost angeles is representing post modernist way
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Document Summary
Sars, there are strong ties and the geography showed the dispersal and concentration. The geographical dimensions of economic globalization- dispersal and concentration. Global cities as sites of command and control functions of the economy. Writw week 5 urban space and morphology two approaches to urban research development of urban systems vs intra-urban dynamics. All cities in a geographic area, relationship and relative importance. Urban systems are relationships and relative significane of cities in a geographic area. Changes in toronto at structures and changes in a specific city intra urban dynamics. Factors that influence geographically for urban space class discussion. Key propo(cid:374)e(cid:374)ts of i(cid:373)porta(cid:374)(cid:272)e s(cid:272)hool chi(cid:272)ago s(cid:272)hool of ur(cid:271)a(cid:374) so(cid:272)iology) Chicago was linking the midwest (agriculture of us) where main agricultural land is, Chiacago was important note that linked booming economy to the seaborn. Railway was a city with a lot of waterhouses. Basic university of chicago that published work on theory.
