GEOG 2UI3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Smart Key, Social Geography, Commuter Town
30 Aug 2016
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Lecture 7 foundation: cities & urban form. Relatively small cities, compact cities transportation walking. Hotels, churches, stores, wealthiest homes close by. Wealthiest lived closest in the centre of the cities. Elite at core, surrounded by occupationally distinct but socially mixed quarters , & poor on fringe. The net effect is an inversion of locational prestige (soja 2000) What"s driving inversion of locational prestige in industrializing of locations. Industrialization changed the spatial organization of paid work. Separation of home and work (not 100% separation) Relevant to women women making money at home. Water & steam power tied workers to machines. Detailed division of labour: social status reorganized along class lines. Bourgeoisie focused on this (marx) company owners, etc. Reserve army unemployed and put pressure on working class. Corporations demand best (central) locations for factories, warehouses, offices. Elites and burgeoning middle-classes move out of the core (driver of suburbanization) Working-class have little power over residential location.
