In Urban Sociology, I have learned to not look but observe a city and it all of the qualities that exist within a city. I have learned that a city is not just a place with a dense amount people, a city is a miniature world that varies
from place to place. For some places, a city is a place that a person from a rural area goes for work and to live a faster pace. I now wonder when I walk pass an abandon building, what was its purpose, product, and its downfall? We are in a time where there isn't a lost but a shift in power that has taken place. Also, I think about the pre-existing vital industries that used to run that city.
Looking at the set-up the building, residential and business, and their contribution of the individuals and their individual past. The idea of the melting-pot has come be a part of every one's lives. The effects of population growth and industry contributing to the birth of the suburbs and the highways. Also, for places such as New York going from agricultural to industrial to financial and still being a vitalizing city is incredible. Capitalism and the need for supply and demand has taken control of every consumer.
Overall, the transition and the dependence that many have on technology that has come about and how it has caused many to be negatively be affected. Cities that their major source of profit was their natural resources are victims to it. Paterson being the first industrialized city in New Jersey and it is being looked down upon by those that do not understand its value and potential.
Here is what we have become! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USipXJkMdt4
