GEG 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Placemaking, Urban Design, Economic Globalization
30 Mar 2016
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Shopping patterns related to imagery encouraged by a retail environment. Place-making has always been a mix of purposeful & accidental actions. Great deal of intent in how places are developed. How one feels about a place has an enormous effect on one"s behavior. People"s attachment to places has changed drastically over the last 30 years, primarily due to globalization. Non-places/placelessness/pseudo-places: information technology and forces of economic globalization are creating places in which the social relation that make places unique" or. Different" are being trumped by urban design intended to encourage consumption. Miniature venice in las vegas (in the middle of a desert) Economies are more influenced by consumption than production. Relationship between local space and the culture(s) represented become weaker. Rather than designing a different business model for each place, a single globalized model is used. Saves the time and money it would require to learn about the.
