From the Chicago School to the Los Angeles School

First of all, the Chicago School is an American current of thought that combines several sets of important works in the field of sociology and urban planning. The University of Chicago was the center of sociological researches before World War II. The Chicago School puts forward several theories on city growth. The example here is, of course, the city of Chicago, Illinois. As early as the 1920s, researchers at the Chicago School have been studying the understanding of how the new migrants, “coming from farms in the Middle West, countryside or Old-World cities”, were going to integrate into the American urban society of Chicago. By observing and analyzing “in the laboratory that was Chicago”, one of the founders and researchers of the Chicago School, the sociologist Ernest Burgess, highlights the existence of two processes that run at the same time. The wave of new migrants coming to Chicago will trigger an expansion, a sprawl of the city. <a href="https://medium.com/an-idea/from-the-chicago-school-to-the-los-angeles-school-urbanism-sociology-6e86ed0ef88f">Website</a>