Sociology chapter 14 urbanization final

What is the difference between a Metropolitan Area, Megalopolis, and a Megacity?

-Metropolitan area: a central city and the urbanized counties adjacent to it. - link closely with the city through transportation, employment, media and leisure Ex: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA Megacity: a city of 10 million or more residents -Population of at least 10 million -10 megacities in 1990 and 29 megacities in 2014 -Expected to increase to 41 in 2030 -1 in 8 people live in megacities -largest of these are Tokyo and Shanghai. The US has New York City and Los Angeles Megalopolis: an urban area consisting of at least two metropolises and their many suburbs. -a chain of roughly adjacent metropolitan areas -EX: Eastern seaboard, California coastal region

How was the city defined?

A place in which large number of people are permanently based and do not produce their own food.

What are three characteristics of City Life?

Alienation, community, and norms

Where are many of the resources and power moving in US Urban Patterns?

City to city, growing cities are in the west and four are in the south

In general terms, what are the three models of Urban Growth?

Concentric model, sector model, and multiple nuclei, peripheral model

urban ecology

Describe how people adapt to their environments

What are the trends in how the world Is urbanizing, particularly in Least Industrialized Nations?

Eygpt is less industrialized, due to poverish area and income

edge cities

Large clustering of service facilitates and residential areas near highway intersections that provides a sense of place to people who live, shop, and work there.

What are Edge Cities and what is the challenge for them?

Large clustering of service facilitates and residential areas near highway intersections that provides a sense of place to people who live, shop, and work there. Overlap political boundaries and include parts of several cities or towns.

Which sociologist focused on alienation in the city?

Louis Wirth (1938)

As discussed in class, what are reasons to study the city?

Study community, and complexity of the city, diversity, culture, eductaion, politics and how can we respond to them. Most people live in the city, understand the urban context.

What are the benefits and challenges of gentrification?

The movement of middle class people into rundown areas of a city, Creates tension between poorer residents and the newcomers.

gentrification

middle class people moving into a rundown area of a city, displacing the poor as they buy and restore homes

Be familiar with these guiding principles of public sociology - scale, livability and social justice.

scale, livability and social justice. Scale: regional and national planning is necessary, Livability: cities must be appealed and meet human needs, especially the need of the community. Social justice: social policy must be evaluated by how it affects people.

urbanization

the movement of masses of people to cities, which then have a growing influence on society.

What is the World's Largest Megacity?

Tokyo

Which state is the most urban and most rural?

California most urban and most rural is Vermont