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13 Cards in this Set
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where/how you live defines who you are (2)
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1. ppl identify (or don't) w/ the places they live/come from
2. ppl perceive you/make assumptions about you based on where you live/are from, shapes how they treat you |
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places as symbols
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representing certain people, values/ideals
*also- have diff ways of living associated with them |
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politics of representation
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what's @ stake in the way something's represented, what informs a representation, what the image projects
(how we tell a story about a place, how we present issues) |
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broken windows theory
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theory that maintaining/monitoring urban spaces may stop further vandalism/more serious crime
--> social disorder/unpredictable ppl make residents fearful, seems like no one cares about the community (gateway for real crime) |
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ugly law
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city ordinances that began showing up in 1867, prohibited ppl who were diseased, maimed, otherwise "unsightly" from exposing themselves in public
*repressing diversity associated with disability/poverty |
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unhoused
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a conscious choice to live differently- on the streets
-still lots of informal social organization -ppl embedded in habitat enabling them to work, survive |
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why ppl chose unhoused life
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1. save vending space
2. save $ 3. use crack hidden from cops 4. come to identify themselves as without a home, become comfortable on the streets |
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19th century change to city
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1. huge #'s of immigrants, overcrowding, unsanitary
2. growth of bourgeois class, new markers of class ID 3. romantic view of nature 4. redefinition of fam, gender roles 5. new tech- commuter trains/cars 6. independence, private ownership, THE SELF |
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New Deal and suburbia
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pumps $ into suburban housing market, easy credit (colored ppl denied loans)
*suburb becomes symbol of American dream |
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quarantine
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public health measure to contain spread of contagious disease, based on idea that most ppl are healthy, few discrete disease sources
*community based strategy |
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inverted quarantine
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individualistic strategy for protecting oneself from perceived dangers by isolating oneself, erecting barriers and withdrawing behind them
ex- bottled h2o *deal w/ issues as individual consumers |
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suburbanization
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growth and population of areas on the fringes of major cities based on variety of push and pull factors
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Romantic suburb
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nature as source of benign human enrichment, way to escape from the overcrowding of city life/distinguish oneself from urban mass
*class separation |
