GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Anishinaabe, Gentrification, Lake Ontario
7 Dec 2015
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The importance of urban canada in the twenty-first century. Some cities are big and more affluent (toronto, vancouver) while some are small and not so affluent (guelph etc: uncertainty in a global economy the fortune of a business is not written in stone. Example the city of waterloo thrived due to blackberry but after. *six properties to understand the city properties common to all urban environment. These are common to all cities no matter their point in time or place in world: production, to have a production system to export something so as to import food in exchange, no production no city. Wwii ended in 1945 so this year has been chosen. Downtown toronto is the area where most of the people lived in the city till. Transportation wasn"t that good people had to rely on walking or streetcars there were no subways so people had to rely on things nearby. Everything was built in a compact form.
