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Thursday, November 15, 2007
A Fertility Matrix: The question of the relative influence of the cultural baggage they carried, their social class, and the structural opportunities they faced had more impact on shaping values is an important question for the book. So imagine if we developed a matrix of fertility values, using the following criteria, evaluated using some sort of ANOVA or non-parametric regression: NATIVES OF ["SC", "NC", "VA", "NY", "PA", "MA"] in home state: largest city unskilled, no property merchant 10x median property small town unskilled, no property merchant 10x median property market agricultural (major x-port access) unskilled, no property farmer, middling 10x median property in migrant state, not Indiana or Mississippi: largest city unskilled, no property merchant 10x median property small town unskilled, no property merchant 10x median property market agricultural (major x-port access) unskilled, no property farmer, middling 10x median property in [IN, MS]: largest city unskilled, no property merchant 10x median property small town unskilled, no property merchant 10x median property market agricultural (major x-port access) unskilled, no property farmer, middling 10x median property The idea here would be to test for greatest explanatory power, class, birthplace, city type, etc., among stayers, migrants, and I&M people. Does moving change your behavior? ====================== 2d issue: is the percentage of movers more or less agricultural than the percentage of stayers? (A good test would be to look at the top ten largest cities in 1860, and see what percent of the (age specific) movers went to these cities, versus countryside. [Are S.C. people more urban-averse, in other words, than people from other states?] ====================== 3d issue: age specific by county and state of origin: ME, VT, NH, MA, RI, CT; NY, PA, NJ; MD, VA, NC; SC, GA, STATE, ORIGIN, US. TABLE 1.1 [1815+/-5 yrs] NY[50] NY[60] PA[50] PA[60] ..... Adams Allen Covington Pike ....
In Pursuit Of The Almighty's Dollar : A History Of Money And American Protestantism Hudnut-Beumler, James David Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007 Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Spatial Syntax: http://www.spacesyntax.org/publications/commonlang.html "Land uses which seek movement, such as markets and retail, then naturally gravitate towards higher movement locations, while others equally natural prefer low movement locations. The extra attraction in the high movement spaces then creates a multiplier effect on movement, which then attracts more, and more diverse, movement-seeking uses, and vice versa. In this way, the settlement pattern naturally evolves towards a seamless network of busy and quiet areas, with the busiest in the spatially most integrated areas, the whole process being initiated in the first place by the spatial configuration of the grid."
SPACE SYNTAX ANALYSIS http://www.spacesyntax.org/introduction/index.asp Space syntax is a set of techniques for the analysis of spatial configurations of all kinds, especially where spatial configuration seems to be a significant aspect of human affairs, as it is in buildings and cities. Originally conceived by Professor Bill Hillier and his colleagues at The Bartlett, UCL in the 1980s as a tool to help architects simulate the likely effects of their designs, it has since grown to become a tool used around the world in a variety of research and areas and design applications. It has been extensively applied in the fields of architecture, urban design, planning, transportation and interior design. Over the past decade, space syntax techniques have also been used for research in fields as diverse as archaeology, information technology, urban and human geography, and anthropology. For a summary of current space syntax research see: 'The Common Language of Space' by Professor Bill Hillier. For a summary of recent space syntax consultancy see: 'Changing the Face of the World' by Phil Clark.
7. Review: [untitled] Author(s) of Review: John C. Lowe Reviewed Work(s): Social Areas in Cities. Volume I. Spatial Processes and Form by D. T. Herbert; R. J. Johnston Stable URL: Article Information | Page of First Match | Print | Download | Save Citation This review raises the question of why heterogeneous neighborhoods have more volatility in property values than do homogeneous neighborhoods. Could this be indexed? Timms argues in the section "Effects of Residential Differentiation" that an individual's social perspective cannot help but be narrowed and focussed by the characteristics of the area in which he lives. The unstated conclusion is that residential areas produce and reinforce the same types of people as those who are already live there. Adams and Gilder, "Household Location and Intra-Urban Migration"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_psychology Although "environmental psychology" is arguably the best-known and more comprehensive description of the field, it is also known as environmental social sciences, architectural psychology, socio-architecture, ecological psychology, ecopsychology, behavioral geography, environment-behavior studies, person-environment studies, environmental sociology, social ecology, and environmental design research; each advanced by different researchers, sometimes used interchangeably, sometimes with recognized gaps and overlaps between the terms. This field draws on work in a number of disciplines including anthropology, geography, ekistics, sociology, psychology, history, political science, engineering, planning, architecture, urban design and, of course, aesthetics. anthropologist E. T. Hall wrote "The Hidden Dimension" which developed and popularized the concepts of personal space and his more general name for this field, proxemics. He defined proxemics as, ". . . the study of how man unconsciously structures microspace - the distance between men in the conduct of daily transactions, the organization of space in his houses and buildings, and ultimately the layout of his towns." Hall defined and measured four interpersonal "zones":
In "The Hidden Dimension" he famously observed that the precise distance we feel 'comfortable' with other people being near us is culturally determined: Saudis, Norwegians, Milanese and Japanese will have differing notions of 'close'. In one of his best known empirical studies, Hall carried out an analysis of employee reactions to Eero Saarinen's last work, the John Deere World Headquarters Building. As environmental psychologists have theorized that density and crowding can have an adverse effect on mood and even cause stress-related illness. Accordingly, environmental and architectural designs could be adapted to minimize the effects of crowding in situations when crowding cannot be avoided. Factors that reduce feelings of crowding within buildings include:
Jay Appleton, British geographer who proposed 'habitat theory' and advanced the notion of 'prospect and refuge'
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