Sociology Final

1944 under FDR. Free tuition for soldiers. It drove residential patterns. Created the suburbs.

European Recovery Plan. 13 billion dollars in grants to rebuild Europe.

Eisenhower came up with it. If a war was to be fought here, it would be easier to transport soldiers.

Residential patterns got stimulated.

• Commute time
• Resource depletion
• Automobile Dependency
• Social Isolation
• Capital Relocation/Shift

policy in which minorities were denied loans to move out. Created white flight.

• Lack of transit resources
• High Degree of turnover
• Cost us money indirectly
• Isolation leads to Apathy

Density, concentrated in poverty, more people.

Banks, savings and loans, government agencies, insurance companies refuse to make home and small business loans to insure their property to the poor people or minorities.

a strategic real estate agency maneuver that encouraged whites to sell their houses at a loss by implying that minorities were moving into the neighborhood.

movement in which predominantly upper middle class, middle class, and working class whites fled from the central cities to suburbs.

a suburban city of at least 100,000 that has experienced double digit growth each decade since it became urban

low-density, automobile-dependent development outside of the central city.

It is above the average with 95 mintues to 90 minutes average.

Threat to democracy. We tend to just care about ourselves. Automobile dependency adds to this.

Social isolation and less use of the public transportation.