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More about urban segregation. Eric Fisher, who I could meet in San Francisco and who is the author of other amazing maps and now works at MapBox, made this beautiful maps about racial segregation in USA cities, based on the US census. Here you have all the series https://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/72157626354149574/detail/

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Is this how it will become someday? For example we watched a video within my urban sociology class that talked about how China may not even have room for cars one day with all the stuff that is being inputed. Is this what it will look like? Is this what society has come to?

How much public space we cede to cars

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In Amsterdam is common to see benches and even tables in front of the ground floor business and houses, installed by private owners and locked to the wall or some tree. Sometimes they are next to the buildings, sometimes next to the canals, but usually anyone uses them. This week I saw for the first time this “private” sign in these two benches using the public space in the Jordaan.

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If we look to the city, rather than the state, it is because we have given up hope that the state might create a new image for the city

Jacques Derrida (via carlesbaiges)

Do we believe that it takes the city to change things? If we left it up to the state do you think that they would do anything about? I believe that it is up to society, and the people within the society to do something, to create change. Hence the idea of urban sociology, urban sociology keeps things going fast pace. Keeps things going as one. 

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What do you think?

Do you believe we have to have certain guidelines, certain reasoning in making a society, making a community? What is the difference in between a community, and a neighborhood?

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It’s like we’re all slaves to this place [New York] that doesn’t even really want us.

Hannah (Lena Dunham), Girls, season 1 (via carlesbaiges)

This quote is perfect in regards to the cities, and what’s going on with them. The city needs to be created, and with the fast moving pace of the city people feel like they’re obligated to do the things they do on a daily basis. It is almost as if they are robots, and they just go with the flow. They don’t think, but instead they just go. They are so immune to the city life that they do not even realize what they are doing. They don’t feel wanted, but instead they just feel like they are apart of something bigger. They don’t have their own personality, their own scene. No identity whatsoever. Just a fast pace city in front of them, and no own identification. 

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After looking over his extensive library of books on urbanism, Brent Toderian selects 100 books on city-making that he’s collected and read over the years.

I haven’t read most of them, so it’s a very inspiring list to me. From the list, here are my favorites, if you have to start somewhere:

The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs

The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch

Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

A Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander

Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour and Denise Scott-Brown (in the list it says Venturi et al, as usual…)

Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas

Sprawl Repair Manual, Galina Tachieva

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Photo via ballerinaproject

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Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let’s say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he’s held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it’s time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us—on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.

President Obama Have questions about the steps the President has taken to expand opportunity for the LGBT community? Ask in the White House Ask Box by 2pm, then follow along when senior officials take your questions right here on Tumblr. (via whitehouse)

President Obama, has some deep words here. A simple man is deciding our future?! How our society is going to be, and how our future will be built. It is things like these that will shape our society. People, normal people that will make society what it is today.

via: http://www.onenewsnow.com/perspectives/michael-brown/2015/04/10/president-obamas-misguided-war-on-conversion-therapy#.VSiYMinRxto

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Urban Sociology

Hello Tumblr world,

I’m proud to say this is my second blog that I’ve made through tumblr, my first one being my personal one that I haven’t kept up with in awhile. Anyways, I’m excited to be starting a blog that has to deal with my major! Sociology! Through this blog there will be aspects involving urban sociology, urban cities, and what not. Stay tuned for updates about urban sociology, look for cool photos, quotes from awesome people, and my insight about it all.

Until then tumblr!