GEOG 1F90 Lecture Notes - Economic Restructuring, Urban Sprawl
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9056885550 X 4416
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Instructor: Dr. Mike Ripmeester
Can be written or typed
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Due at the beginning of next seminar
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Worksheets
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Hand in online before the beginning of seminar
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Open 5pm the day before and shut 30 before your seminar
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Essay Question
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Late assignments will not be accepted 4
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Progress exam will be tested on term one material and final exam will be on second term
material
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Seminar Activities
What is happening in different places
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What is where?
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Why there?
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Why care?
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Tell us a great deal about the people who created it
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Even the most mundane thing matter
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Charles Gritzner (2002):
"where we are literally affects our life chances"--> "success or failure, health and
happiness, life or death"
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"the geography of our everyday lives pivotal in influencing who we are and what we might
become"
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"place matters"
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What is Where? Why There? Why Care?
2/3 Canadian live in suburban settings
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Homelessness- growing population even in a prosperous country such as Canada
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Shelter
Take for granted how much access to fresh water we have
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Some people have to walk miles to water
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Why is it like this in none place and not the other?
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Water
We have good income so that we could make day to day purchases
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People search through garbage and landfill sites for their own use or to resell just as a
means of survival
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Accessing Goods
Going to restaurants
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Spatial variations are very concerning
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Children searching through garbage for food
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Food
Automobile oriented societies, public transit and an increase in people using bikes in the
city
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Countries who don't have roads or cars there only means of transportation is them walking
very long distances to get things like shelter, water, accessing goods and food ( it all
intertwines within each other) there is spatial variation within all of these main components
of life
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Frowning upon public transportation, advertised as undesirable. Companies do this to
benefit themselves while completely disregarding the different classes in society and what
people can afford
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Transportation
Introduction to Human Geography
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