Topic 12. Urban Issues

This week’s agenda

 

Required Reading

Textbook

• 20.2 Urbanization in Introduction to Sociology 2e

Supplementary Reading

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Urbanization

• Reading
  • Urbanization in History of Western Civilization II
  • The Industrial Revolution in People, Places and Cultures by The OpenOKState OER program

• Videos
  • Cotton Mill Girl: Behind Lewis Hine’s Photograph & Child Labor Series | 100 Photos | TIME

• • Tenement Museum – Lower East Side, NY

Suburbanization

• Reading
  • Becky Nicolaides and Andrew Wiese, “Suburbanization in the United States after 1945” in Urban History. 

• Videos

  • In the Suburbs (1957)

• • The Disturbing History of the Suburbs | Adam Ruins Everything

Gentrification

• • Read:
    • “Overview: The Gentrification Debates   ” “PART I: What is gentrification?: Definitions and key concepts” and “PART II: How, where and when does gentrification occur?” in The Gentrification Debates by Japonica Brown-Saracino (pages 1-8, 11-18, and 63-70)
    • “Gentrification: Timeline”  in Next City
    • Gentrification in National Geographic

• •  Watch:
    • • Watch:
        • • This Neighborhood Has Changed | Going In with Brian Vines