[GEOG 3] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 34 pages long Study Guide!
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To do: finish dynamics of inclusion and exclusion in urban and suburban spaces (suburbs, szasz, li) Ex: weeds example of general picture of suburbs. Rows of houses, gate communities, conformity, safety, isolation, money, freeways, shopping malls, detached family homes, soccer games, front lawns, swimming pools. By 2000, 50% of americans lived in suburbs . The fact that so many us americans live a suburban life is the end product of a succession of choices over many, many years. The rise of suburbia was linked to ideas about class/race/gender/changes in us american political culture & the role of the state, shifts in ideas about success, opportunities for social mobility, & the constructions of us american culture itself. The idea is pretty recent, but the ideas go back late to the19 century. 19th century immigrants from eastern europe, development of factories, crowded, tenant housing, sanitation issues - cities were very dirty & unhygienic due to plumbing system, infection diseases were rampant.
