PP&D 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ernest Burgess, Georg Simmel, Urban Sociology

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Planning, Policy, and Design
• Course: PP&D 4
• Professor: Walter Nicholls

Document Summary

Lecture #4: order in the disorderly: instrumental individualism, the blas attitude (georg simmel): difference breeds indifference. Free urbanite- free city: weakening control, blurring boundaries, difference and indifference. Urban is more freedom because of indifference. Ernest burgess and robert park: chicago school of urban sociology: first to study urban sociology. The city of concentric circles: a spatial structure: burgess set up the idea of what socio-spatial structure of city should look like, center. Argument: the city is made up of concentric circles and the center is typically the site of locational advantage (port, transport hub, etc. ) Drawing heavily from ecological (darwinist) models of human behavior. This increases the value of places surrounding the center: zones of transition: warehouses, transit infrastructure, facilitate transport of goods around the center area. Makes it possible for deviants to settle in the city. Skid rows of america : residential districts (working class, immigrants)