Write a urban case study of Seattle from: cultural perspective economic perspective
Write a urban case study of Seattle from:
- cultural perspective
- economic perspective.
Using some of urban planning concepts as:
Concentric Zone Theory - Ernest Burgess and Robert Park’s theory of metropolitan areas being in a set of circular areas radiating from the center.
Ethnographic Case Study -A case study using field methods to investigate a particular social phenomenon that reflects the circumstances of a group.
Exchange Value -Marx’s concept of the market value of commodities; the primary interest of real estate developers.
Gated Community- A residential community surrounded by walls, fences, gates, water, and/or natural barriers that admits only residents and their guests.
Gemeinschaft- Ferdinand Tönnies’ term for community.
The close and intimate, as opposed to fleeting and impersonal, relationships between people.
Gentrification- Redevelopment of older residential and/or industrial districts of the metropolis; marked by increased land values and population changes.
Gesellschaft- Ferdinand Tönnies’ term for society. The partial and impersonal, as opposed to close and intimate, relationships between people.
Global City - Saskia Sassen’s term for major cities that act as control centers for the global economy.
Globalization - The growing integration of countries, firms, individuals, goods, and information across the world.
Great Migration - The movement of a large number of African Americans from the US South, especially during the interwar period.
Growth Coalition- A group of individuals and organizations who come together in support of urban growth
Hinterland- A generally rural or agricultural area or region that surrounds a highly urbanized city.
Human Ecology- The view that change in cities can be construed in terms of the rivalries among different population groups.
Metropolis -A vast settlement of people and various organizations that can consist of countless cities and towns.
Natural Increase - The crude birth rate minus the death rate of a population. Usually positive, but may be negative.
Places - Specific sites that are shaped by and shape the lives of human beings. Sites of human identity, security, and community
Prototypical Case - A case study of the first city of a given type that is soon to become more common.
Redlining - The systematic denial of mortgages and other forms of lending in minority communities.
Reliability- Measures of, or information about, a particular phenomenon that can be replicated by observers.
Restrictive Covenant – Agreements prohibiting the sale of property to members of racial, ethnic, or religious minorities.
Slum - A run-down area of a city characterized by substandard, makeshift housing, lack of tenure security, and the presence of poverty. See also Ghetto.
Social Mobility - The capacity of a group or individual to move from one social class to another – for instance, moving up from the working class to the middle class. Upward mobility is common and desirable, but downward mobility also occurs.
Sprawl - The extensive growth and spread of people and institutions across metropolitan areas.
Sunbelt - The southern and western portions of the United States where many people and firms relocated after World War II.
Technoburb- Robert Fishman’s term for areas on the urban periphery that have developed their own socioeconomic viability
Use Value - Marx’s concept valuing the use of a thing; residents’ primary concern regarding their neighborhoods.
Walking Cities - The dense, compact forms that cities took before the wide adoption of powered transportation technologies.
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