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Duneier - Talking to Women
Currid - Dance Floor
World Trade Center Evacuation
Florida - Creative Class
Robbins - Lawns as Toxins
Freudenburg - Catastrophe in the Making
Trillin - Atlantic City
not natural although we think it is nature
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
"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)
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
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
where economic developement happens is the social settings, in creative situations (galleries, clubs)
entrepreneurs have a lot of leverage, community - uniting or dividing, what is/ constitutes a neighborhood and what are the limits?
Short Answer
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Duneier - Sidewalk
Muschamp - Secret History
Junemo - Palm Island
Jackson - Federal Housing Authority
Shapin - Sick City
Multiple Choice
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Erving Goffman - Territories of the Self
reappropriation of space, adjusting situationally - interaction membrane, within interaction membranes are rules
where economic developement happens is the social settings, in creative situations (galleries, clubs)
density, walkability, transit, mixed used, neighborhood as "street ballet," the social interaction is what makes a great city, heterogenous culture
being upclose to understnad the larger, in seemingly unorganized conditions, extreme organization, interactions between men and the community around them, (method, order, community, city)
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/ McClain - Things at Work
first people who profit in growth are white rich people, first people who suffer in loss are poor minorities
new urbanism, if we build density, resource needs will go down
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
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
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
Davis - Slum Ecology
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)
where economic developement happens is the social settings, in creative situations (galleries, clubs)
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
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
not a problem of the slums, but of the economy
Anderson - Code of the Streets
cities grow outwardly, within a context of a set idea of what a city looks like
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
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
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)
Alice Goffman - On the Run
commodity chains, how products move through "flow," movement of human beings and money in the world
things America has done really shape the world today
media produces a crimewave when there was no spike in crime, there was an action response to no change because of fear
efficiency and density, separation, human interaction isn't significant (opposite to jane jacobs' city)
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
True or False
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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
True
False
Sontag - New Yorker
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
True
False
Packer - Lagos
growth machine, naturally not desirable, rich, keep rebuilding
True
False
Owen - Green Manhattan
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)
True
False
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
True
False
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Practice Test: Metropolitan Studies