Urban sociology

The role of city planning should be targeted and revolved around the city’s residents and not based around the business aspect. The residents of the city are a huge factor on the cities stability and protraction. Without the specific individuals playing their part in the city, the whole system will fall apart. The well being and mood of the resident have a huge impact on the city’s productivity. The factors that need to go into the city planning would have to be limiting gentrification and…

Is gentrification beneficial to regeneration? Gentrification is a controversial topic within regeneration, defined by a variety of urban planners and architects alike. Smith and Williams (1986, p.3) describe the process of gentrification as dynamic, which cannot be constrained to a simple definition. ‘Gentrification of the City’ (Smith and Williams, 1986) explores the idea of gentrification as made up of several layers and developments that can only be understood if the links between one…

The Socio-spatial Dialectic and Segregation in the Industrial and Apartheid City There is a strong correlation between the social aspect of living and the spacial aspect of living, especially in urban areas and the modern city, as defined by (Pacione, 2005). These aspects have had a significant effect on world history, such as in the industrial city and the apartheid city. The Socio-spatial Dialectic The socio-spatial dialectic (Soja, 1980), describes the interaction between space and society…

Asef Bayat in his article “City inside out” has proposed that cities like Cairo and Beirut are undergoing through a new form of urban public space, where, poor people tend to reappropriate the space from rich in Middle East region. Such urbanized public space’s new version, where, public-ness levels of the city consider is as “inside out” in literal meaning, where poor public is left with no option other than ensuring a heavy outdoor presence on city streets and where rich people’s response is…

Urban Anthropology A college student taking an introduction to Anthropology course could be overwhelmed with the immense amount of information that exists in today’s text books about Anthropology, Anthropologists and the varied sub-topics. It is impossible even for the most detailed professor to cover all of the information available. A professor needs to evaluate the information and decide what topics should be included in their teachings and how in depth they should be covered. It is clear…

used by extended families (Genemo, 2012). Over the years, urban sprawl has directly contributed to the degradation and decline of natural environment resources. It also reduces farm land and productivity in city leading to social loss and open spaces (Haregewin, 2005). In addition, urban sprawl leads to regional imbalance, such as pulling jobs and people further away from poor communities, increasing in equality. Recently, the problem of urban sprawl was restricted to the developed world but;…

Resseger, and Tobio 617). The separation that takes place between residents within these metropolitan areas can be attributed to many factors, of which includes the limited amount of space available and social stratification. The “segregation of urban space occurs because land is limited” (Fildes 4). Due to the introduction of zoning laws and greenbelts, large cities are no longer able to accommodate everyone who wishes to live there (“Space and the City”). These land-use rules were…

For Bellamy, the utopian Boston is the city of order, but with preserved historical heritage. The physical city in the novel is a shell of the organically developing city. The urban environment alleviates the sufferings of the industrial city. Bellamy claims that the urban landscape is a facilitator of the industrial city dwellers' lives. Various social virtues and other benefits of the society are available for the citizens of the ordered city. The author says that the society must endure what…

On Wednesday, November 9, 2016 I attended Edward Flores’, Ph.D. lecture on his book, God’s Gangs. The event was held in room 190 in Fresno State’s Music Building, and was Co-sponsored by the Departments of Anthropology and Sociology. It was a part of the 2016-17 Lecture & Film Series, “Lived Experiences, Social Justice, and Social Science”. In his lecture, Dr. Edward Flores spoke a little about his background, how he got started writing his book, and of course talked about his book God’s Gangs…

Manhattan Analysis: A Discussion of Urban Life and Urban Planning As along with the rapid development of science and advanced technology, people’s life style in urban area is dramatically changed with the outstanding improvement of the urban planning and management. In the movie Manhattan directed by Woody Allen, described a romantic story of four people’s life in Manhattan, the importance of the urban planning to people’s urban life is obviously discovered by the main characters’…