Lecture 10Outline of Last Lecture I. RecapII. Discuss suburbs and SzaszIII. Midterm Q&AOutline of Current Lecture IV. Rethinking Universals of Nature and Environmentalism Current Lecture-Exurbia/exurban sprawl: Subdivisions on the very edge of urban fridge and newly carved out of desert, prairie,or forest.- Phoenix Exurbia- 2,000 gated communities in the U.S. in 1970 and about 20,000 by 1997-Szasz tells us we’ve created a social geography that is best “patchy”o It’s comprised of “patches segregating people along both racial and social lines, with great homogeneity within each patch, and significant inequalities between patches”- The typical big American city today has two very different social worldso “Minority communities...are in the inner city, still un- or underemployed, mired in poverty, livingin dire conditions”o “The other urban world is the one inhabited by the more affluent folks, who are also mostly white” - Perception of security=clear boundaries between the two - “Fortress America”: Whenever the wealthy have had to find a way to coexist with poor people in cities, they have used similar means to shield themselves form the unpleasantness or the danger of having to interact with those who are a lot worse off than they are. Walls, gates, bodyguards, private carriages, private schools, exclusive clubs-the specifics might differ but the function is the same”- ethnoburb: o Suburban ethnic clusters of residential areas and business districts in large metropolitan areaso Multiethnic communities meaning one ethnic group has concentration but is not necessarily themajorityEx. Monterey Park during the 1960’s GEOG 3 1st Edition1. upwardly mobile Chinese moved out of Chinatown and other nearby inner-city neighborhoods into this area2. New immigrants with higher educational backgrounds, professional occupations, and financial resources started moving into these areas- Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)o Why Monterey Park?  Unfavorable conditions in and around Chinatown Accessibility Prior ties Relative diversity Practices of local realtors Superior feng shuio This challenges notions that for immigrant groups upwards class mobility and involvement in local politics necessarily requires assimilation- Ethnoburbs are distinct spatial form. o Share some characteristics with ethnic enclaves and white suburbs but they are also differento They’re shaped by political economic factors within the U.S. and by global geopolitics and U.S. immigration and trade policies- FILM: Global Dumping