cities midterm Word Scramble
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| Term | Definition |
| Metropolis (1929) | -dehumanization of industry -badness of industrial city -class segregation -pollution |
| global urban population growth | grown as proportion of dwellers urban:rural and as # of people flat out |
| Simmel's social effects of urban life | -large + mobile urban pop. -> world of strangers -workshop of modern humans, unlike rural |
| Wirth's view of urban life | -anomie: isolation, less connection freedom: less social cntrl of folk world, judgement -large pop. -> formal social controls -heterogeneous -> social diversity, immigration, work specialization -spacial segregation -> whole diverse, int. segregation |
| rank-size rule - Zipf's Law | P_r=P_1÷r population of city=population of largest city/rank of city |
| primate system | 1 big city dominates the entire system |
| developing system(s) | top ~5 very similar, population lower than expected -expected convergence to mature system -transitory, many systems |
| mature system | - relationship among cities in system |
| The City (1939) | Lewis Mumford, prescriptive, GC influence evolution of American city, arts of death/life -New England village -industrial, financial, automobile city -greenbelt towns |
| hinterland-city relationship | -ag surplus needed, provided by hinterland |
| the Arcadian myth | -idealized rural life, combined urban-rural -pastoral existence, close to nature -reaction to industrialization |
| Farewell Oak St (1953) | promoting urban renewal/slum clearance -privacy, hygiene, modernist influence -people influenced by their environment |
| the Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011) | -lots of hope at the beginning -key failures: segregation, no defensible spaces -not just architectural determinism -funding structure unworkable with declining pop., social context |
| Hausmann's redesign of Paris | -destroyed medieval st pattern -narrow sts -> broad ave, straight boulv., big parks -health and sanitation reasoning -facilitated social control + police, easily move troops -mandated Parisian building codes -top-down planning, elites/state>residents |
| City Beautiful | Daniel Burnham cities as visual spectacles, places to be seen not live -reconstructing old cities -radial sts on grid -civic/public buildings @ center -more influential as vision than literal implementation --used some in non-industrial places, DC |
| Garden City | Ebenezer Howard cities=places to live in -natural balance, human scale, top-down, designed not grown -ring of cities around central city, rail +canal -tree lined sts, communal ammenties, industry @ edge -communism, self-sufficient, nature Letchworth |
| Don Mills ON | -example of prewar suburb -GC integrated land use -small scale, not mass-produced, custom built -neighborhood units |
| Levittowns | -model of postwar American suburbs -single family houses, cars -mass production:mass consumption -segregated -FHA-> more ppl could get mortgages (30 yr. mortgage) -privatization |
| Le Corbusier | Modernist design function > form, uniform -embraced industry, orderliness (judgy), auth appeal -apartments cells/machines make human products -intensive hi-rise with lots of open space, mixed use -Plan Voison, the Radiant City -Chandigarh, Brasilia |
| Jane Jacobs | -activist against urban renewal/Robert Moses -emphasized diversity, mixed use, bottom-up -sts for social interaction, eyes on the st, kids in the st -ppl as inhabitants not products -criticisms: still planning |
| Greenbelt, MD | -est by federal govt -coop elements, depression affordable housing -social engineering/screening, racially segregated |
| Radburn principle | -reduce traffic w/in neighborhoods designed around schools -superblocks -> cul-de-sacs -leads to car dependence |
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