GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Amc Theatres, Queen Street West, Lowkey
2 Nov 2012
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Typical north american city consists of two parts inner (developed first) and outer zones (inner and outer suburbs) Toronto was an administrative/service town and trade centre. Manufacturing develops and society sorts itself by class. Distillery district made to produce alcohol via breweries. Manufacturing moves out of the city, toronto"s growing globalization, gentrification manufacturing centre move to: 1-suburbs: manufacturing in downtown very expensive and prohibited. City needs production: toronto is producing services not manufacturing. Service economy polarized some services making lots of $ lawyers, accountants others working part time jobs at mcdonalds. Today service centre provides entertainment: coffee shops, gallery, restaurants: holy trinity church. Eaton"s decided to transform to mall, resident tower, conference centre. Cataclysmic changes happen all of a sudden involving big corps or gov"t. Gradual changes-piecemeal effort left to private (single individuals)initiatives ex. one person renovates their house, then their neighbor likes it and changes too: regent park. Streets were closed and replaced with pedestrian paths (no cars)
