SOCI201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Roppongi Hills, Vehicle Insurance, Costco

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI201
• Professor: Best Joel

Document Summary

Allowed people to move to the suburbs in the 19th century. Little houses along a streetcar line were seen as luxurious. Electrification-got rid of the horse, cleaner, more efficient transportation chicago school of sociology looked at cities. Downtown institutions--the department store (all different kinds of goods available under one roof !!) Henry ford and the model t (inexpensive, mass-produced automobile, t 4 touring) Ford"s goal was to have consumers afford his cars. The new car-centered suburb, levittown-cars had garages, houses were the same. Postwar abundance-gi bill, soldiers got funds to build a house. Eisenhower found the roads were crappy when he had to move a convoy across the country. You need two maps for the rail system. Nyc has a decent transit system, la has an awful one. La has huge freeways with lots of congestion. Cars also eat space-the walking city becomes impossible. Parking ramp near amsterdam"s train station: filled with bikes.