City

Chicago School of Sociology
1833 – 350 people
1840 – more than 4 000
1890 – 1.1 mln
1910 – more than 2 mln
1925 – 3 mln

Chicago school of sociology
William Thomas 1863 – 1947
Robert Park 1864 – 1944
Ernest Burgess 1886 –1966
OUR GREAT CITIES ... ARE FULL OF JUNK, MUCH OF IT HUMAN…
R. Park

Chicago school
Human Ecology
Urban ecology
Food chains: Chain of dependence between different species
Darwin example:
Plant ecology:
Natural selection – urban sorting – residential segregation
Struggle for existence
Competition
Community studies
Position of a person or institution in space & time
Spatial distance reflects social distance
Old maids -> cats -> mice -> bees -> clover -> cattle -> roast beef -> soldiers ->
British colonial power

The growth of the city
Burgess model
“distribution of population into the natural areas of the city
division of labor
differentiation into social and cultural groupings”
Radial expansion
Succession - “tendency of each inner zone to extend its area by the invasion of the next outer zone”
Burgess 1925

“Natural areas”
Harvey Zorbaugh
The Gold Coast and the Slum: A Sociological Study of Chicago's Near North Side

Ethnic concentration

Types of data
Reference books (“Who’s who”)
Rental prices
Land prices
Addresses of organizations of different types: from charities to brothels
Archival data from charitable organizations (“settlement houses”)
Statistics of gender,
age,
disease,
crime,
divorce
disorder,
vice,
insanity,
suicide
poverty
juvenile delinquency,
boys’ gangs

Механика Москвы. Исследование городской среды
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