Homework 7
BE
SURE TO FOLLOW THE FILE-NAMING CONVENTIONS FOR THIS COURSE (5% penalty
if you do not).
All files should be saved on your computer as: your last name, followed
by an underscore ("_"), followed by the first two letters
of your first name, followed by an underscore ("_"), followed
by the assignment number. So if a student named Saddam Hussein were
to submit assignment number 7, the file name would be:
hussein_sa_7.doc |
Don't
stop until you see "end of assignment"
This
assignment consists of three parts: (1) reading a book chapter, (2) responding
to some short answer questions on that reading, and (3) an in-class, open-note
quiz on that reading.
Next class you will have a somewhat larger than
usual mid-term quiz on this reading; the quiz will consist of a single
essay question and a number of vocabulary terms from the reading.
It
make sense to look up and learn the words that might appear on the quiz
BEFORE doing the reading because knowing these words will help you understand
the reading.
Likewise, doing the short-answer questions below carefully makes sense
because it will prepare you for the quiz. So, don't pretend to either
yourself or us if you don't know the answers. If you can't answer the
question in your own words, then you likely don't understand the reading
yet. And the reading IS dense. But it's certainly comprehensible.
It just might take going over certain passages several to grasp them.
VOCAB
WORDS FOR QUIZ
Demographic
Hemorrhage
Redundant
Flotsam
Bereft
Incarnation
Blight
Coexistence
Atavism
Abhor
Shareholder
polarization
QUIZ
QUESTION:
Katz describes three types of transformations of the American city: demographic,
economic, and spatial.
Be prepared to describe in detail using your own words the causes
and consequences of each transformation.
You
will, however, be asked to describe only one transformation on the quiz.
Preparing
for this quiz:
Notice
that Katz has chunked the reading into three sections--one for each transformation
(demographic, economic, spatial). As you read, when you encounter Katz
discussing either a causes or consequences
for a transformation, jot down the details in your notes.
You can bring these notes to the quiz as long as you follow these rules:
RULES FOR USING NOTES ON THE MID-TERM
QUIZ
A)
You must use handwritten notes; typed notes and photocopied will
NOT be allowed. REALLY.
B)
You must use this sheet (downloads a
ms-word file to your desktop) to take the notes and you must bring
in this sheet. Notes taken on a different
sheet will not be permitted.
C)
You may use Katz's words when you take notes, but the quiz will
require you to use your own words, so be sure you understand the
text.
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Taking notes will help you organize your thinking about the reading.
Again,
if a particular sentence or phrase confuses you, be sure to e-mail Prof.
Byrne or Umbach.
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
(notice
that question 9 requires linking to a different page as is both longer
and worth more than the other questions)
1)
What happened in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s to the manufacturing jobs
that had once been at the heart of many cities?
2) How do the jobs available to the poorly educated in the new corporate
services sector of the economy compare to the jobs the older manufacturing
sector once offered?
3) How does deindustrialization explain the simultaneous boom in downtown
redevelopment (with new office buildings and retail stores) and the deterioration
and abandonment of housing elsewhere in the city?
4) How and why is unemployment among healthy, working-age adults different
now than in the past?
5) The economy boomed throughout much of the 1990s, in part because productivity
(the ability of the economy to produce goods) increased significantly.
What, however, was different about the relationship between this increase
in productivity and wages for workers compared to past economic boom times?
What were the consequences of this difference?
6)
For inner-city residents, what have been the consequences of the growth
of suburbs (and the “suburbanization of employment”) and why?
7) Have American cities gotten more or less segregated in the 20th century?
What forces drove this change?
8) What were the negative consequences of Congress’ insistence that
public housing service the very poor rather than the working poor?
9)
(worth 60% of the assignment) Go here to
answer the image questions. Be sure to include the write-up to those questions
with your answers to the above 8 questions. (The extra-credit portion
is here too)
"END
OF ASSIGNMENT"
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