Play Into The Theme Of Class Conflict

Segregation – Nightingale defines segregation as racial control, or the separation of multiple groups. It can be seen as racial, geographical, religious, sex and residential segregation
Significance: Play into the theme of class conflict as well as how urban settings have been developed in order to keep racial groups separated
Example: From Nightingale reading, white people in Baltimore wanted to extend segregation to the city’s residential neighbourhood. Mayor Barry Mahool signed the segregation ordinance into law, dividing every street into “white blocks” and “coloured blocks”. Set a $100 fine and up to a year in jail for anyone who moved to a block set aside for another race

Racism- is generally defined as actions, practices, or beliefs that consider the human species to be divided intoraces with shared traits, abilities, or qualities, such as personality, intellect, morality, or other cultural behavioral characteristics, and especially the belief that races can be ranked as inherently superior or inferior to others, or that members of different races should be treated differently. Race is a paradox; it is a biological illusion but is persistent in social reality. It is not human nature; it is a product of history and human practice. Individual or social phenomenon
Significance: If we understand racism, we can understand the idea behind segregation. White people believed they were inherently superior to any other race, therefore believed they should live separately from them. Also crucial in understanding class relations. Ranking racial groups into a hierarchy
Example: The Apartheid in South Africa, which is mentioned in the Nightingale reading. This was the most radical form of urban racial segregation enforced by National Party governments.
- Exoticism in Hamilton (putting indian head on monument)
- Ghettoization in Baltimore

Porosity - or void fraction is a measure of the empty spaces in a material, and is a fraction of the volume of voids over the total volume, between 0 and 1, or as a percentage between 0 and 100%
Significance: metaphor for fluid transitions between work and leisure, formal and informal economy, street and domestic space, public and private life
Example: Professor talks about the time (clock) of capitalism in lecture 9. Time is measurable and divisible, a repetitive sequence of inter-changeable instants

Sitcom Suburb – Important reference point in mass culture. Suburbs are now standardized, planned product of integrated development industry. The state subsidized oil, water and sewage, mortgage insurance and roads. Elements of the picturesque enclave are recycled, and households become machines for consumption. Sitcoms and films thrived because they were about model families in new communities where every family had a house, a car and a television. Television reached all houses, and because of this, many saw the tract house as an emblem of belonging and upward mobility
Significance: Families moved into a culture of consumption and became dependent on cars. It is accurate to say that the sitcom suburbs complicated class relationships rather than erasing them. Race and gender were set against class in a painful way. The long-term economic effects of racial and gender exclusions were heightened by the vast scale of new tracts and by their promotion in mass culture
Example: Park Forest in the Sitcom Suburbs reading

Industrial Suburb – These were company towns or multi-firm towns that were developed by industry, landowners railway/street car companies. They were often separate municipalities whose goals were labour control, transformation access and lower taxes and land costs. The housing was speculative and was either self-built or built by the company
Significance: Suburbs become the typical urban experience. They were made as a way to create demand for consumer durables. They’re counter-revolutionary solution to radicalism: privatization and segregation. They are also a way of making cities less

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