For Tuesday, 10/3 (SOC 1102

We’ll continue to discuss the question of whether there really are distinct urban and suburban ways of life. The majority of you think there clearly are; why then does Gans disagree? Please review his essay; you might also read ahead (see below). By the way, here’s that essay on gentrification we looked at in class.

Thursday we experimented with having you all access the reading via your smartphones; sadly, I saw too much texting and other interaction with the world outside our classroom. It’s unfortunate, but we’ll have to end that particular experiment.

In-Class Setlist

• American Beauty
• Herbert Gans, ‘Urbanism and Suburbanism as Ways of Life: A Reevaluation of Definitions’
• Where Do You Draw the Line? The City of a Hundred Villages. IS New York a city of neighbourhoods? Here’s one crowdsourced answer.
• For Next Time

After

• Congress for the New Urbanism, ‘Charter of the New Urbanism’ (1993)