THE SECOND URBANIZATION
- A large scale movement of people cities to work in manufacturing. Made possible by:
- 1. Second agricultural revelation that improved food production and created a larger surplus
- 2. industrialization encouraged growth of cities near industrial resources.
- Snowball effect!
- 2nd half of the 20th century
- Nature of manufacturing changed and locations changed too. Many factories have been abandoned, creating "rust belts" out of once-thriving industrial districts.
- City House in the Indus River were uniform size
- *Why were conditions like this present?
- Uniform houses, sewage system, etc.?
- Zones of the City:
- Central business district (CBD)
- Central City (CBD + older housing zones)
- Suburb (outlying functionally uniform zone outside of the central city)
- Edge Cities:
- Suburban downtowns, often located near key freeway intersections, often with office complexes, shopping centers, hotels, restaurants, entertainment facilities, and sport complexes
- Making Cities in the Global Core:
- Redlining- financial institutions refusing to lend $ in certain neighborhoods
- Blockbusting- realtor purposefully sell a home at a low price to an African American and then solicit white residents to sell their homes and low prices, to generate "white flights."
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