| Question | Answer |
| Duneier - Talking to Women | "cat-calling" study gives a clue to larger phenomenon, the calling out to women in front of each other - dignity and status, if in each interchange women have awkward relationship, they are ratifying their social relationship , social structure is created out of human behavior, relationship between structure and agency (operating together) |
| World Trade Center Evacuation | these are people who "got out," what we see at WTC is a mass amount of escape due to infrastructure and people helping each other out, way to model "escape"/ getting out, human interaction and aid is the key |
| dependency theory | commodity chains, how products move through "flow," movement of human beings and money in the world |
| Davis - Self Help | IMF/ World Bank, restructuring of economies in under developed countries, third world countries are unable to help themselves, their governments were trying to do too much, the market must be left alone to work itslef out, move from countryside to the city |
| Sontag - New Yorker | things America has done really shape the world today |
| Bourgois - Male Love | white drug addicts, city as a system of affect, alive with erotic - secual but also just seducing - presence of others, most desperate of circumstance there is still affect, antin - walking we avoid collisions, hyper connection, these affections despite conditions |
| Packer - Lagos | slum ecology, jacobs - they see a slum like hudson st but i see life, what to build a city off of, abject conditions, need to renew, ngo's?, rem koolhaus says no to this a says don't build new but build old, the slum should be how the city grows/ reforms, need to be freed from social structures? get out? slum is a system of adaptations |
| Davis - Slum Ecology | not a problem of the slums, but of the economy |
| Szasz - Fallout | believing you can do something holds up security, feeling of security necessitates us |
| Owen - Green Manhattan | new urbanism, if we build density, resource needs will go down |
| Robbins - Lawns as Toxins | not natural although we think it is nature |
| Davis - Let Malibu Burn | growth machine, naturally not desirable, rich, keep rebuilding |
| Currid - Dance Floor | where economic developement happens is the social settings, in creative situations (galleries, clubs) |
| Florida - Creative Class | jobs - types of people we can get, tolerance and diversity, sign off gentrification, shallow reading of what people want, what is wrong?, engine of creative world are those that were shunned, also those what are "okay" with it, you will support and create industries that will rule the world, says there is money in this class |
| Filler - High Line | ideas of nature, what a park should be, economic part - example of the growth machine, reappropriation of space for nature, examples of all ideas combined |
| Reagin - Significance of Race | black people in all different cities, when going to consumptive location are faced with racism, interaction between individuals, what you can do? buy?, the ability to consume (comfortably) is not equally distributed |
| Junemo - Palm Island | design and location, place ties to ideology - physical structure, symbol of the indulgent possibility |
| Le Corbusier - Contemporary City | efficiency and density, separation, human interaction isn't significant (opposite to jane jacobs' city) |
| Muschamp - Secret History | identity and place can be closely tied together, every building is a story, old building had a history of audience, historic preservation carries history "because someone touched it, it becomes holy," that audience was a culture/ history of gay new york, also the heart of creative new york, that moves the city and culture, should be honored? |
| Jane Jacobs - New Urbanism | density, walkability, transit, mixed used, neighborhood as "street ballet," the social interaction is what makes a great city, heterogenous culture |
| Rozario - Chicago Fire | catastrophe is not necessary but it has a response, ideology is powerful in shaping decision in the future, how ideology is deployed, where these ideologies come from (growth machine) |
| Fishman - Crime Waves as Ideology | media produces a crimewave when there was no spike in crime, there was an action response to no change because of fear |
| Best/ Horiuchi - Razor Blade in Apple | network of rumor, people believe because of intrenched ideologies, fear of strangers |
| Pew Reports | first people who profit in growth are white rich people, first people who suffer in loss are poor minorities |
| Trillin - Atlantic City | entrepreneurs have a lot of leverage, community - uniting or dividing, what is/ constitutes a neighborhood and what are the limits? |
| Logan/Molotch - City as Growth Machine | divide people between being entrepreneurs and residents, direct effects of the city towards growth, more people = more expenditures, private sector gets the city to subsidize, the poor and environment get the lower hand, development in the short term - immediate profit, zero sum game - trade offs with growth on a national scale, on the national scale growth of one is loss of another |
| Anderson - Code of the Streets | categories are ghetto families: decent and street, decent families are optimistic, people who act street are anti-authoritarian but also has a disdain for their social position and don't think they can have a social mobility, different ways about thinking of your relationship to society has an affect on your actions |
| Alice Goffman - On the Run | policing in ghetto doesn't work with idea of constant surveillance, disciplin is contingent on race and economic status but there is a wide variance individuals can have within these laws, how individuals are policed, men have problems with warrants but also use them |
| Humphries - Tearoom | reappropriation of space, adjusting situationally - interaction membrane, within interaction membranes are rules |
| Antin - Tuning | constant communication, but communication to adjust |
| Erving Goffman - Territories of the Self | interaction at a visceral level (placing a jacket on a seat, not making too much eye contact), how people expect to be treated and how we act socially, meaning is communicated non-verbally |
| Molotch - On Not Making History | we have a bathroom idea but doesn't work for everyone, minority has diverse set of needs, not situationally dependant not only immediate needs lifetime (disability, gender) |
| Molotch/ McClain - Things at Work | clear reappropriation of an object, needs of people are on a spectrum/ scale, when design occurs the majority is designed for but minority must adopt |
| Shapin - Sick City | infrastructure connects people in city, that wasn't understood until things like Snow's mapping of the plague |
| Freudenburg - Catastrophe in the Making | Risk in the city and disaster of epic proportion, is manmade reasons behind this are economic, growth machine (is it a conspiracy of the rich?), makes living in the cities risky |
| Jackson - Federal Housing Authority | made judgements based on racial populations of neighborhoods, if government says a neighborhood is crappy there will be no funding so it will remain like that, racial and economic segregation is a factor from gov organization |
| Burgess - Growth of City | cities grow outwardly, within a context of a set idea of what a city looks like |
| Duneier - Sidewalk | being upclose to understnad the larger, in seemingly unorganized conditions, extreme organization, interactions between men and the community around them, (method, order, community, city) |
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