GGRB21H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Urban Area, Alpenglow, Counterpoint
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Section 1: central approaches to environmental geography. Each approach either enshrines or challenges certain environmental and social relations: section 2: defining environmental issues and environments. What is wilderness: wild & uncontrollable, sociologically exists, glaciers, commercials,(culturally led) What is the relationship between the city and wilderness: resources, urban space --> city & countryside and revolves how it works, depend on each other. What can we learn about the wilderness when we consider popular understandings of the city: very dif. Concepts w/ wilderness in terms of people and infrastructure. Is wilderness a north american phenomenon: wilderness it is very subjective, it depends on the eyes, the urban. You have to start w/ the analysis w/ urban. The urban is everything that the wilderness is not: busy, infrastructure, highly populated, congested. March 5, 2015: subways, william cronon and the city: nature"s metropolis. Chicago represented all that was most unnatural about human life.
