Key three and four of chapter thirteen Key three: Why Are Urban Areas Expanding? Urban expansion has been mainly focused on suburbs that surround older cities. Suburban Expansion Cities use to expand by adding peripheral land as they grew. A city now is a legally incorporated entity that encompasses the older portion of the urban area. THE PERIPHERAL MODEL North Americans follow the peripheral model where it is implicated that an urban area includes the city and built-up suburbs. DEFINING URBAN
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America is known as the land of the free‚ home of the brave and is deemed as one of the most prosperous countries with a booming economy and mass production of goods. But just as it took decades for America to build up this reputation‚ there were devastating periods of intense trial and error. During the Great Depression‚ 40% of Americans were living in poverty due to an unregulated economy. The New Deal soon followed after society had reached its apotheosis of poverty and served as a relief to jump-start
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residents.” Inner City Physical Issues • What is the major problem faced by inner-city residents? • Describe the inner-city process known as filtering. • What is the ultimate result of this process? • What is redlining and its result? • What is urban renewal? • Why has urban renewal been criticized? • Complete the chart below regarding public housing. Public Housing Who builds & maintains it? Percentage in the
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Ethnic Groups and Discrimination Tanya Casey ETH/125 Week Three Assignment Sarah Jakub‚ M.A.‚ J.D. The African-American group is the ethnic group that I belong to. During the years of 1450- 1750‚ Africans immigrated against their will by the Europeans for the slave trade in North America. Africans and their descendents endured harsh treatment‚ such as slavery‚ extreme physical and mental abuse‚ human exploitation‚ etc. When the Civil War began in 1861‚ African-Americans join the
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Race‚ education‚ and incarceration: three factors that are all undeniably linked in America’s present day society. Race has been an issue for the entirety of American history. Institutionalized racism can be seen everywhere – health outcomes‚ wealth distribution‚ housing‚ education‚ incarceration rates‚ and so on. One in every three black men will be incarcerated in his lifetime and blacks are five times more likely to be incarcerated than whites – this is no coincidence. There are numerous different
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Many of our ancestors have arrived to this nation with aspirations of living a life of success. Indeed this is the land of the free and the home of the brave but according to gentrification‚ which is the removal of lower class citizens through property renewal‚ the increase in cost of living and demographic shifts‚ it feels as if we are living in the exact opposite. Gentrification indeed has had some advantages but overall it has led to the increase of the homeless population‚ the loss of culture
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In More than Just Race‚ William Julius Wilson challenges social scientists to rethink the ways in which “complex and interrelated factors…continue to contribute to racial inequality in the United States” (p. 3). Wilson (2009) identifies two important factors associated with racial inequality: social structure and culture. Structure is comprised of two specific categories of behavior: social acts and social processes. Social acts refer to the behavior of individuals who occupy positions of power
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Ethnic Groups and Discrimination Scott Johnson ETH 125 January 15‚ 2012 Stephanie Perry Ethnic Groups and Discrimination The Chinese immigrated to the United States in during the 1800s; Official records show that before 1857‚ 46 Chinese immigrants were in the United States. Over the next 30 years more that 200‚000 Chinese had immigrated to the United States. This immigration wave was largely because of the push of the awful conditions in China and the pull of the discovery of gold‚ and‚ job
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taxes. This was a typical theft of black owned land. As Clyde grew older he was drafted in the army and fought in World War II. Clyde would later migrate to Chicago seeking the protection of the law. Clyde would soon fall in trap of redlining. According to Coates‚ “Redlining went beyond FHA-backed loans and spread to the entire mortgage industry‚ which was already rife with racism‚ excluding black people from most legitimate means of obtaining a mortgage.” Whites could rely on a credit system backed
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immensely difficult for them to rise up and move out of their neighborhoods‚ and move into more affluent neighborhoods. And in the worst case‚ they are forced to foreclose. The foreclosure rate in these communities has been extremely high from these redlining tactics. “We find that the foreclosure crisis was patterned strongly along racial lines: black‚ Latino‚ and racially integrated neighborhoods had exceptionally high foreclosure rates (Hall)”. This issue creates a whole range of new issues when you
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