GGRB05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Urban Renewal, Distillery District, Yacht Club
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Urban: people don"t have to live on urban land to have an urban lifestyle, can include going to places for entertainment and event purposes. How places are developed human intervention specific sites not entire cities (though possible like tokyo) then people are influenced by places reciprocal relationship attachment to place distinct meaning. Distinct shapes, scales, and other properties that set the stage for certain kinds of human activity: more organic geographical scale. New meanings by human beings become places. Picture on slide both space and place: chinatown place, intersection and public transit space. Discovery district, fashion district, distillery district: network of places within a city, particular functions and interventions, specific meaning, personal/collective meaning to particular space. Shanghai entire blocks of people have to be relocated for redevelopment. 3 million people, 1 million homes: ex. Regent park from park to public housing and so on. Place and space are subject to change.
