GEOG 1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Megacity, Industrialisation
8 Nov 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
How do you define the city? (landmark, interdependent, they don"t exists in isolation, Cities vary depending on the social and the historical. Nerve centres for the economic, social and cultural poltical life. How do we live in the city and we experience they city is important there is an interest in the elites to grow the city to gain to gain more profit. We can conceptualizer it from a gender of the city, race and how the city has a hierarchy to better understand the city. Try to understand the perspective the author is taking when they tak about the cities. The decision making capacity (political and economic power) The generative functions (leads to concentration and competition, knowledge) The city of diversity that is what toronto sells itself. Who is asking the question to who"s city. Cities have a relationship between them (global context)
