Urban sociology

This clearly shows the comparison between open space of air traffic with the thin overfilled and jammed lanes in the slum. This scene in the movie shows that the infuriated security guards understood the aspects of slums that they are not aware of. This is the physical structure of the slum from which the guards and police are estranged, regardless of their everyday happenstance with it. Salaam Bombay’s opening scene shows how slum is disorganized and messy with everything muddled up. But…

The final case study is about urban development in Davis, California. Urban development does not take place in a vacuum, and it is important to be sure that established assumptions about the development process are manifestly accurate. Property developers usually have their way, large corporations do homogenise the American landscape with indistinguishable retail outlets, and entrepreneurs, landowners, mainstream media, and local government also support this type of growth. In other words, what…

can be traced back to the countries diverse networks. These countries can be separated by being urban and rural. While one side has a more of a rural type of society, the other has an urban based society. A rural society being a simpler way of living, consisting of a natural environment and an informal social life. Homogeneity in language, professions, and customs of social life can be found. However; urban living has a fast and formal social life. A complex social life is formed where people…

Why public transportation matters to the poor people: Analysis of the why do the poor live in cities argument In modern society public transportation gets its consideration day after day. In his essay “Why do the poor live in cities? The role of public transportation” published 19 January 2007, Edward suggests that “more than 19 percent of people in American central cities are poor. In suburbs, just 7.5 percent of people live in poverty”. Unbelievably, the majority of the poor people decide to…

What is Gentrification? Since the early 1970’s , American cities have experienced constant urban growth despite the Urban Sprawl which resulted in many Americans moving away from urban cities, and into low density neighborhoods. This phenomenon which intrigued many urban observers known as Gentrification, resulted in not only urban city growth, but it also had varied effects on city life, income rates and including culture. The impact gentrification leaves on many American cities differ from…

approached this issue on their own respective books, from a rather different perspective, but maintaining the topic of urban poverty as the overarching object of analysis. Davis directly addresses the slums as a global issue, giving different characteristics that are present on them, and explaining their variety. Sampson on the other side, takes the specific case of Chicago, and analyzes its urban poverty, the problematics that it carries, and the strategies available to solve it. On Planet of…

Ginormous events in history continue to affect urban life to this day. The integration of blacks and whites started to happen in the urban environment . The creation of cities like Harlem started to pop up in urban areas along with new culture (Harlem Renaissance ) and the popularization of Jazz. Along with this World War One lead into the roaring twenties. A time were fun was high but morals were low. And everything on the urban environment became the picture of luxury. You can still see it to…

You always hear about great legends, no matter where you are from. All my life I had heard about a great monsters who used to roam The Great Plains in Texas, but none of the stories matched the monster I had found. I lived in a small quaint house right outside of a town in the middle of the Texas Plains. Most of the townsfolk were superstitious. My mother was a carefree and spirited woman who let me roam the flat land, not troubled by the hideous monster myths. Many people thought my mother was…

considered the “urban wilderness”, places of crime, danger, corruption and disorder (Boyce, 2004; Smith, 1996). The emergence of gentrification arose at a time when the imagery of cities transformed from anti-urbanization to a romanticized sentiment, saturated with language and ideas of the frontier. In the preface of “The New Urban Frontier: Gentrification and the revanchist city” by Neil Smith (1996), he describes how the influx of “urban pioneers” into cities can be considered the new urban…

thrive within the community. These services often provide jobs that do not require high education, generating employment opportunities for the lower income residents (Byrne 419). Research as shown that gentrification teaches mortgage lenders to trust urban homeowners. They tend to lend to those in profitable central cities (420). Once the affluent people renovate their homes or simply tidy up their property, the area becomes more attractive to other wealthier people. Therefore, the value of…