Date Covered Concept/Term Submitted
4/20/01 what is contract rent
4/20/01 what is economic rent
4/20/01 what are birddoggers
4/20/01 what does Bazarr mean
4/20/01 describe the three major components in group rent
4/20/01 what is often the motivation for development
4/20/01 describe the four types of investments in land and property
4/20/01 what are the types of investments
4/20/01 how do you get taxpayers to support what you want
4/20/01 what is a land bank
4/20/01 what are some marketing ploys used to sell property
4/20/01 what is speculative investment
4/20/01 what is structural speculator
4/20/01 what are some forces behind what land is developed
4/23/01 what is social reproduction
4/23/01 what are some factors of identity
4/23/01 how is social class self-perpetuating
4/23/01 what factors influence why people pick certain neighborhoods
4/23/01 what is nodal center
4/23/01 name 3 reasons why people live together in neighborhoods
4/23/01 what is the foundation of Residential States
4/25/01 what is assimilation
4/25/01 what were ghettos
4/25/01 what are DINKS
4/25/01 cultural preservation helps to preserve and promote what
4/25/01 the "classic" american lifestyles identified by sociologist Wendell Bell were based on three sterotypes, name them
4/25/01 what types of communities were there after 1920
4/25/01 name the 4 functions that ethnic residential segregation fulfills
4/25/01 there are many communities built to support people with certain what
4/25/01 what is acculturaton
4/25/01 what are 3 types of ethnic segregation
4/27/01 the growth of the "impacted ghetto" is based on what
4/27/01 what is society of the spectacle
4/27/01 what is gentrification
4/27/01 what is mosaic culture
4/30/01 what is the house cycle
4/30/01 why has public housing been so limited in American cities in comparison with urban housing markets  in other countries
4/30/01 what encourages deterioration of rental properties
4/30/01 the last building to enter a neighborhood are usually for what kind of families
4/30/01 what is use value
4/30/01 which house depreciates quicker, a rental or owned
4/30/01 can housing and neighborhoods actually appreciate
4/30/01 draw the depreciation curve
4/30/01 what is downgrading
4/30/01 what is exchange value
4/30/01 descrube how and why houses depreciate
4/30/01 what is depreciation
4/30/01 clarify the different components of neighborhood change
4/30/01 what is infilling
4/30/01 what is the difference b/t renewal and gentrification
5/4/01 define tipping point
5/4/01 define block busting
5/4/01 what is redlining
5/4/01 what is steering
5/4/01 what are three illegal methods of controlling where people live
5/6/01 what is the role of the Flaneur
5/6/01 what are some reasons for anti-urban bias
5/6/01 what is structuralism
5/6/01 what is psychic overload
5/6/01  what is socio spatial dialect
5/6/01 to be in the condition of anomie is to be socially what
5/6/01 describe the complex relationships b/t urban settings, individual, and social behavior
5/6/01 what is social disorganization
5/6/01 describe the three fundamental attributes of urbanization
5/6/01 what is anomie
5/9/01 prison of the suburb
5/9/01 paths
5/9/01 time-space routines
Essay Questions Be prepared two answer two of these questions OF MY CHOICE
1. Explain the various means by which realtors, bankers, insurance agencies and city politicans help create neighborhods with particular identities.
2. Explain the notion of the sociospatial dialectic and discuss the various sociological approaches to urban living.
3. The three bedroom, two bath ranch style home was found to be an inadequate living machine for many during the 1970s.  What happened and who was affected by not-so-surprising revelation?
4. Explain how neighborhoods experience a "life cycle".  What are the stages in this cycle and what are the factors that drive forward this cycle?