Urban Sociology

After learning in class about Mike Davis and his thoery of the Ecology of Fear, I really liked his perspective because it was more modern and it was a closer time to when I was born. I was born in 1988 and Davis' thoery is from that time period. It stated that we needed to retain the danger and fear, and some things that were considered dangerous during this time were the minorities, immigrants, lower class, and the homeless.

Mike Davis goes to Los Angeles and the Fortress City. During this time period things were getting changed where flat benches were then being changed to benches that were like tube style. The reason these benches were being changed was because they wanted to get rid of the most feared people in this area, the homeless. So, by changing the benches so that they were not flat, it would remove the homeless from laying on them. Tube benches are not comfortable and are very uncomfortable to stay on for a long period of time.

Class warfare 1960's, there was on level architecture, spacial confinement, and danger according to Davis. This was not the way that cities should have been according to Davis. He saw the 1960's cities being problems because of the architecture, spacial confinement, and the danger that occured because of that. These problems were later observed by Davis, and he identified the problems.

Mike Davis wrote many different articles and had alot of different ideas on cities. It was very appealing to read some of the other articles that he wrote and opinions on those topics through blogs.

http://www.planetizen.com/node/30414