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Please do not post or distribute this handout GEOGRAPHY X50AC: FINAL EXAM REVIEW Seth Lunine’s Regular Office Hours: Wednesday, December 8, 3:00-4:30 561 McCone Hall or by appointment (just email me) Seth Lunine’s Final Review Session (see our bCourse homepage for the Zoom links): Monday, December 13, 2:00-4:00 _____________________________________________________________________________________ TERMS & CONCEPTS Note: this exercise is intended to help you to engage with your lecture notes, section work, reading notes, and lecture slides. The following terms & concepts are drawn directly from lectures, though this list is not necessarily exhaustive. Review the following terms & concepts (this is one approach to preparing for the final exam). Think about where these terms & concepts are located in the arc of the course. What are the broader processes or concepts listed below? Are these integral to specific readings? Which terms serve as examples of broader processes or concepts? no-cause or no-fault evictions suburban whiteness Exide Technologies Moms 4 Housing redlining “contract city” (Lakewood Plan) redevelopment project area West San Gabriel Valley white privilege service sector “the prison boom” “reverse migrations” Chavez Ravine enterprise firm wealth gap uneven metropolitan development criminalization (racialization) “urban decline” (3 Ds) suburbanization of poverty Japanese-American incarceration (“Japanese internment”) rent gap urban renewal Silicon Valley direct tech employees (“techies”) Black Power de-skilling venture capital gang injunction redevelopment agency “Twitterlandia” “Tax Revolt” Sogorea Te’ Land Trust urban entrepreneurialism displacement racialization suburban cosmopolitanism selective credit programs “single-use city” Ellis Act (1986) technological innovation Serviceman’s Readjustment Act of 1944 (“G.I. Bill”) environmental racism West Oakland Rumford Fair Housing Act “white flight” National Housing Act (1949) “rent plantation” 1

Please do not post or distribute this handout Acorn Project (1959) Federal Housing Administration (FHA) owner move-ins gentrification rent control Residential Security Map de-industrialization Executive Order 9066 & Federal Public Law 503 paternalistic capitalism re-segregation Federal-Aid Highway Act Free Breakfast Program “soft evictions” secondary displacement The New Deal Prop184 (3 Strikes Law, 1994) suburbanization “natural” disasters Wedgewood LLC. Black Panther Party Lease Revenue Bond secondary displacement or “everyday displacement” Black Panther Survival Programs intersectionality Greater Eastside mass incarceration restrictive covenants or deed restrictions “slum clearance” Proposition 14 Security Housing Unit (SHU) industrial suburbanization environmental justice Proposition 13 re-industrialization (Greater Eastside LA) “tech” eminent domain white supremacy Oscar Grant blight Sand Hill Road industrial district “practical revolutionary activity” San Leandro “Cities of Carquinez” (including Antioch) patient capital contract manufacturing The Great Migration FHA Underwriting Manual Oakland 10K Initiative merchant builders contract workers Liberty Ship Lakewood Center Mall Home Owners’ Loan Corporation (HOLC) regulatory noncompliance settler colonialism 2

Please do not post or distribute this handout PRACTICE QUESTIONS When answering questions on the final exam, be sure to: • read the directions carefully • address each prompt or facet of the question • craft a explicit argument (your answer to the question) • define key terms and concepts • support your argument with specific examples from lectures, sections & assigned readings (cite readings with author’s last name) 1. Considering Walker’s definition of industrial districts , describe the location of Silicon Valley. How has spatial proximity among Silicon Valley firms engendered technological innovations ? 2. How did urban renewal impact African American communities in West Oakland during the 1950s and 1960s? How were these impacts related to the Black Panther Party ? 3. Why are evictions of tenants in rent controlled housing units integral to profitable gentrification ? 4. Considering wildfires in California, explain what is actually “natural” about natural disasters? 5. Define metropolitan re-segregation in the Bay Area. How does the suburbanization of poverty figure into this process? 6. Why is “white flight” an insufficient explanation for postwar suburbanization? 7. Explain how urban space is a key element of racialization by contrasting Solnit’s depiction of the Mission District in San Francisco and Cheng’s analysis of the West San Gabriel Valley. 8. How have industrial transformations, including new labor requirements, transformed specialized suburbs in the Greater Eastside of Los Angeles? 9. Why are contract workers integral to tech firms’ profitability in Silicon Valley? 10. Explain the differences between redlining and gentrification . Now explain how these processes are related to each other. 11. Considering Sogorea Te’ Land Trust , explain the meaning of “land beyond property”. 12. How has access to homeownership helped create suburban cosmopolitanism in the West San Gabriel Valley? 13. How and why have city governments facilitated gentrification (provide specific examples)? 14. According to Pulido, what are the causes of environmental racism ? 15. What factors contributed to the prison boom in California? 16. Provide one example of a policy and one example of a project that illustrate how the New Deal privileged public good over private interest? 17. How did suburban homeownership help define whiteness in the postwar period? How, in turn, did suburban whiteness influence Proposition 13 ? 18. What solutions to the housing crisis has Moms 4 Housing demonstrated in Oakland? 19. How have struggles over urban space criminalized young men of color in our gentrifying cities? 3

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Please do not post or distribute this handout Some Key Readings (in no particular order) Davis, “The New Industrial Peonage” Ramírez, “Take the Houses Back/Take the Land Back” Murch, “Survival Pending Revolution” Avila, “The Nation’s White Spot” Cheng, “Suburban Cosmopolitanism in the San Gabriel Valley” Pulido, “Geographies of Race and Ethnicity” Walker, “Tech City” Solnit, “Death by Gentrification” Videos “Lakewood: ‘The Future City as New as Tomorrow,’” c1950 “Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story,” Bullfrog Films, 2003 “Workers Leaving the Googleplex,” Andrew Norman Wilson, 2011 “What It’s Like To Get Kicked Out Of Your Neighborhood,” BuzzFeed, 2015 “N.O.B.E.,” Linnette Edwards, 2012 "Japanese Relocation," US Department of War Information, 1943[?] bCourse Site : Check the “files” section of our bCourse site for lecture slides and handouts distributed earlier in the semester. 4