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32 Cards in this Set
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Settlment House Movement
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In the 1880s and 1890s attracted yong middle class educated religious minded and idealistic men and women who were bothered by the social barriers between classes and frustrated with their own uselessness on a society that needed reform
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William Levitt
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mass production of suburban housing
levitt towns |
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Edge City
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At least 5 million square feet of office space
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Frank Loyd Wright
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broadacre: low population density and sprawl is great
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Gentrification
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when rich people move into poor areas and better them
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William Whyte
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-used video cameras to study urban settings
-recommends sidewalks |
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Economic Restructuring
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Downsizing, deskilling, and deindustrialization
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Anzaldua(nepantalism) and Raban(soft city seek)
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describe problems of defining self in the postmodern city
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Mount Laurel
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NJ court decision made cities have to provide a fair share of low and moderate income housing in 1975
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Pruitt Igoe
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Marked failure of modernist urban renewal
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1920
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Majority of the american population live in cities for the first time
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James Howard Kunstler
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Opposed zoning laws because he thought you can't build attractive, mixed used, human scale public spaces.
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The "Great Migration"
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from 1915 to 1925 brought african-americans into northern cities
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Gated Communities
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Macionis and Parillo suggest sense of community, exclusion, privatization, and stability
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Le Corbusier
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Vision of urban future was skyscrapers in parks
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BID
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Business improvement district
funded and organized methods to revitalize downtown areas (Time Square) |
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UDAG
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Urban Development Action Grants
gentrification efforts |
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Jane Club
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Cooperative residence for working women
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CDC
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Community Development Corporations
Banana Kelly in the bronx dealt with economic issues and affordable housing |
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Housing Act of 1949
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Title 1 Title 2
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Housing Act of 1937
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public housing and slum clearance.
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Tysons Corner, VA
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example of edge city
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KKK and Prohibition
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"last gasps of fading rural resistance to urban civilization"
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Van Jones
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California activist advocate for green collar jobs
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Civil Rights Movement
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1960
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Interstate Highway Program
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1956 payed for 90% of all construction of the highways
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Urban Sprawl
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loss of farmland, loss of historic treasures, environmental damage, and traffic congestion, are all problems that can be attributed to
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James Rouse
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major figure in developing signature consumption projects including Baltimore's Inner Harbor, Quincy Market and Faneuil Hall in Boston, and South Street Seaport in NYC
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Political Economy
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Marxist in orientation
fall of cities isn't random |
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Symbolic Economy
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importance of culture tourism entertainment and consumption projects
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New Urbanism
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form-based codes
safety community activities |
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Robert Moses
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"master builder" "power broker" jones beach triborough bridge cross bronx expressway
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