Papers and Proceedings, Annual Meeting, American Sociological Society, Volume 18

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American Sociological Society., 1924
 

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Página 91 - In the expansion of the city a process of distribution takes place which sifts and sorts and relocates individuals and groups by residence and occupation.
Página 21 - Committee should be charged by the Governments with the task of collecting the various proposals to be submitted to the Conference, of ascertaining what subjects are ripe for embodiment in an International Regulation...
Página 88 - ... which may be numbered to designate both the successive zones of urban extension and the types of areas differentiated in the process of expansion. This chart represents an ideal construction of the tendencies of any town or city to expand radially from its central business district — on the map "The Loop
Página 96 - Chicago are at the point of greatest mobility in the city, at the corner of State and Madison streets, in the Loop. A traffic count showed that at the rush period 31,000 people an hour, or 210,000 men and women in sixteen and one-half hours, passed the southwest corner. For over ten years land values in the Loop have been stationary but in the same time they have doubled, quadrupled, and even sextupled in the strategic corners of the "satellite loops," an accurate index of the changes which have...
Página 86 - subversive" forces which have wrought these changes are measured in the physical growth and expansion of cities. That is the significance of the comparative statistics of Weber, Biicher, and other students. These statistical studies, although dealing mainly with the effects of urban growth, brought out into clear relief certain distinctive characteristics of urban as compared with rural populations. The larger proportion of women to men in the cities than in the open country, the greater percentage...
Página 81 - We think the industrial court act, in so far as it permits the fixing of wages in plaintiff in error's packing house, is in conflict with the fourteenth amendment and deprives it of its property and liberty of contract without due process of law.
Página 89 - It hardly needs to be added that neither Chicago nor any other city fits perfectly into this ideal scheme. Complications are introduced by the lake front, the Chicago River, railroad lines, historical factors in the location of industry, the relative degree of the resistance of communities to invasion, etc. Besides extension and succession, the general process of expansion in urban growth involves the antagonistic and yet complementary processes of concentration and decentralization. In all cities...
Página 88 - residential " area (IV) of high-class apartment buildings or of exclusive " restricted " districts of single family dwellings. Still farther, out beyond the city limits, is the commuters' zone — suburban areas, or satellite cities — within a thirty- to sixty-minute ride of the central business district. This chart brings out clearly the main fact of expansion, namely, the tendency of each inner zone to extend its area by the invasion of the next outer zone.
Página 92 - ... colony, radical centers - all obsessed with the vision of a new and better world. The next zone is also inhabited predominatingly by factory and shop workers, but skilled and thrifty. This is an area of second immigrant settlement, generally of the second generation. It is the region of escape from the slum, the Deutschland of the aspiring Ghetto family. For Deutschland (literally "Germany") is the name given, half in envy, half in derision, to that region beyond the Ghetto where successful neighbors...
Página 90 - Certainly, modern cities have increased and are increasing in population at a far higher rate. However, the natural rate of growth may be used to measure the disturbances of metabolism caused by any excessive increase, as those which followed the great influx of southern Negroes to northern cities since the war.

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