Location: DMH 162

Assignments

Documents

• Research Assignment Helper [DOC]
• Arthur Schlesinger "City in American History" [PDF]
• Wirth Urbanism [PNG]
• Quiz #2 Spring 11 Xtra Credit [DOC]
• Micro[1] [DOCX]
• Micro[2] [DOCX]
• Urbanism as a Way of Life, Louis Wirth [PDF]
• Claims Process[Oct5] [PPT]
• FarmingVilleVideo [PDF]
• Hoyts Sector Theory [PDF]
• TaxiDanceHallQuestions [PPT]
• Focus Questions Research Presentations Due Nov. 16th [DOCX]
• Presentation Example [PPT]
• City Life Final Review [DOCX]
• CongressRes [COHN/COURSES/CITY/S0/1968ACT[1]]

Links

• Richard Florida Creative Class

Course Documents

Urban sociology is rooted in the restructuring of social life that came about with the industrial revolution. Economic restructuring was accompanied by rapid urbanization and foreign immigration. With the seeming total reorganization of political, economic and social structures, sociologists took notice of the influence of space on community.

Documents

• Fall Syllabus [DOC]
• Ch. 1 Fall 11 ppt [PPTX]
• Ch. 2 Ancient Cities ppt Aug31 [PPTX]
• AncientCitiesSept7 [PPTX]
• Ancient Greece [PPT]
• Ch. 3 ppt Sep 19 [PPT]
• Demographic Transition Theory [DOC]
• Houston Free Enterprise City ppt1 [PPT]
• Ch. 5 Metro and Edge Cities Thesis Statements [DOC]
• Ghetto [DOCX]
• Code of the Streets [PPT]
• Ch. 5 Ethnic and Minority Groups [DOC]
• Questions to Ghetto [DOCX]
• Modernization Theory [PPT]
• Theories of Migration [PPTX]
• Ch. 7 Urban Growth [PPTX]
• Taxi Dance Hall [DOCX]
• Ch. 8 Ecology, Capitalism, and Expanding Scope of Urb Analysis [PPT]
• Ch. 9 Poverty, Power, and Crime [PPTX]
• Ch. 9 Poverty, Power, and Crime [part 2] [PPT]
• Ch. 10 Urban Policy [DOCX]