Question

1. Can you identify and describe nearby urban neighborhoods by their social class compositions? (p257-261 and p274)

2. Describe a. Upper-Class and Middle-class Urban Neighborhoods (p266-272). Specify Yuppies, Dinks, Buppies, Bobos

3. What is Minority Suburbs and how and where they exist? (P281-285)

Answer three of these question using the below book

Cities and Urban Life 7^th Edition

Answer 1

1. Yes, according to social class composition or more aptly according to social stratification, neighbourhoods can be classified into various forms such as Upper class Neighbourhood, Middle class neighbourhood and Working class neighbourhood.

2. The Upper class neighbourhood and the middle class neighbourhood are the forms of Neighbourhood classifications. Those in upper-class neighbourhoods typically have several homes and alternate where they live at different times of the year, and generally live in the most fashionable neighbourhoods. In these communities, they can live securely, deliberately segregated from the rest of the population, and generally travel with the use of door-to-door limousine services to various cultural events.

The middle-class mostly live in suburbia, however, they are gradually becoming a significant reality in large cities, as they used to be. Some of these city blocks have evolved to become middle-class due to the process of gentrification, as economies have changed to corporate information processing services, from manufacturing and industrialization. Within this category are also the yuppies, dinks, buppies, and bobos.

Yuppie stands for Young urban Professional.Yuppie is a term coined in the early 1980s for a fashionable young middle class person working in a city with a highly paid job.

"DINK" is an acronym that stands for "Dual Income, No Kids". It describes a childless or childfree couple where both partners receive an income. The term was coined in the 1980s at the height of yuppie culture.

A Buppie is “Black Urban Professional” .Buppies are college-educated black adults employed in a well-paying profession and who lives or works in or near a large city.

3. Minority suburb means a sub urban areas where families of minority communities reside. For example, Blacks seem to experience more discrimination than other minorities in largely white areas. Many settle in black sections of predominantly white suburbs.