Learning Objectives
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Chapter 15: Urban Problems Learning Objectives |
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After reading Chapter 15, students should be be able to:
1. understand the social-scientific distinction between urban and rural, and be able to define key terms like urbanism, urban population, ur-banized area, conurbation, and suburbs.
2. understand the urban revolution as a worldwide phenomenon.
3. describe the American city in terms of growth, management problems, the antiurban bias, and the composition of urban populations.
4. understand the concepts of minority migration and voluntary/involuntary segregation.
5. detail the major theories of urbanism: Wirth's model, Gans’ com-positionalism, and Fischer's subcultural theory.
6. explain the major patterns of metropolitan growth, including the distinctions made by the Census Bureau.
7. describe the history of transportation in American cities from the late 1800s to the present and be familiar with the emergence of edge cities.
8. understand the impact of suburban growth.
9. identify each of the urban problems discussed in the text: decon-centration, relocation of manufacturing, financial problems, and govern-ment.
10. explain the problems of shelter poverty, homelessness, and distressed neighborhoods.
11. understand the social-policy implications of urban redevelopment, housing, homelessness, and the controversy over reinstitutionalization versus community care.
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