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Assignment:
From the reading:
The Rise Of Urban Sociology, by Mark Gottdiener, Ray Hutchison, and Michael T. Ryan,
Answer the questions below:
1. Early sociologists shared a common vision of the consequences of industrializa- tion and urbanization for social organization. What did Georg Simmel, Ferdinand Tönnies, Emile Durkheim, and others see as the consequences of the shift from village life to the modern city?
2. Georg Simmel ultimately felt that urban life would result in greater individual freedom. Why is this likely to be the case?
3. In the text you have examined several competing models of urban structure: concentric zones, sector theory, and multiple nuclei. Explain how each of these models could be used to explain the development of the city that you live in. Which of these models gives the best explanation for the development of your city?
4. Roderick McKenzie wrote about the development and importance of metropolitan regions. Why was this important work overlooked by other human ecologists? How is McKenzie's work similar to the discussion of the multinucleated metropolitan region emphasized in this textbook?
5. In the 1960s and 1970s, human ecologists sought to apply new computer technologies to the study of urbanization. What are some of the results of this research? What did human ecologists see as the limitations of their theoretical model and of its application for studying urbanization in other parts of the world?