GEOG 1410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Baby Boomers, Deindustrialization, North American Free Trade Agreement
3 May 2018
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GEOG 1410
November 14, 2017
The Canadian Urban System
Review:
● Origin of cities and urban revolution
● Complete urbanization of society
● Not just about questions of oppression; where there is oppression there is always
resistance
● City to an urban society
Urban Systems (Bourne)
● Cities don’t exist in isolation, there is a system of cities and interconnectivity between
different sets of cities. Hierarchy.
● Forces of change that lead to these factors: subject to forces of change from national
and international
○ Economy
○ Demographic Structure (Immigration, attracted to certain cities; push and pull
factors)
○ Government policies, programs and practices
● Why do some cities prosper and why do some fail.
● Globalization reshaping the structure of the global system
● Do these factors lead to a fragmentation? What policy initiatives are important?
Canadian Urban System (Filion, 2010)
● Staples Phase
○ Canada is a settler society, responsible for the pre-industrial settlement
patterns, to extract resources. Mineral, fir, staples. Extracted and brought to
Europe.
○ Transportation systems had evolved to move resources
○ Settler Nation
● Heartland-Hinterland Phase
○ Heartland City - Windsor to Quebec City - Canada’s main street
○ Hinterland reliant on extraction and drawing resources
○ Beginnings of Industrialization
● Post WW2: 1951-1971
○ Growth in the economy
○ “Interventionist Decade” - the beginnings of the welfare state - the state
invests in the urban and transportation - growth of subsidised housing -
Canadian Pacific Railway - had an effect on the nature and growth of cities.
○ What we see today is the Neo-Liberal state - partially liberal with some
conservative views - more and more cutbacks - state is involved with making
more privatization
○ Pursuit of territorial equity - ensured Canada had
○ Baby boomers
● Post 1980’s
Document Summary
Not just about questions of oppression; where there is oppression there is always resistance. Cities don"t exist in isolation, there is a system of cities and interconnectivity between different sets of cities. Forces of change that lead to these factors: subject to forces of change from national and international. Demographic structure (immigration, attracted to certain cities; push and pull factors) Why do some cities prosper and why do some fail. Globalization reshaping the structure of the global system. Canada is a settler society, responsible for the pre-industrial settlement patterns, to extract resources. Transportation systems had evolved to move resources. Heartland city - windsor to quebec city - canada"s main street. Hinterland reliant on extraction and drawing resources. Interventionist decade - the beginnings of the welfare state - the state invests in the urban and transportation - growth of subsidised housing - Canadian pacific railway - had an effect on the nature and growth of cities.
