Urban Sociology

Until last Tuesday I have never even heard of fourth world countries-which apparently are nations unrecognized as states and are recognized ...

Gentrification means "creative destruction" and is an economic concept. As an economic concept its purpose is to exand global mark...

In general, global poverty is influenced by changes and the emergence of the global economy. Apparantly globalization was responsible for ca...

The growth of slums is caused by many moving to the periphery of cities. Sadly the promise of urbanization only results in producing massive...

Usually when I first think of ghettos I think of either the Jews under Nazi Germany confinement or poor black people-you know from the hood-...

There are six discourses that make up the concept of the postmetropolis. One of them actually is the term simcity-whose definition is simila...

According to Mike Davis ecological view point, cities are organized based soley upon fear. Cities are seen as zones of danger. Another belie...