GGR124H1 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Toronto, City, Census Geographic Units Of Canada
12 Oct 2018
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GGR124H1
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
GGR Day 1 – do citations = an form, report may be better graph for research.
Cities and Urban Life
Concepts and Context
Defining the City
• subject of much debate and disagreement
• Louis Wirth (1938) – large, dense relatively permanent settlements of socially heterogeneous people.
• Lewis Mumford (1961) – cities were a fundamental cultural institution.
• Bunting and Filion (2010) – places of intense social interaction and exchange between strangers.
Social heterogeneous people: meaning different – Louis
- Blunting and Filion not different from louis.
Common Characteristics
• Dense concentration (agglomeration) of people and activities.
• Proximity, density, and diversity are key characteristics.
Balance Concepts
Urbanization
• Shifting population balance between urban and rural areas
• Proportion of the total population that is living in urban places (% urban)
Deurbanization (counter-urbanization)
• Balance is shifting towards peripheral / rural areas
• Rural population growth is higher than urban population growth
• Grown from 19% to 80% in urbanization for Canada
• The rate of growth for Canada is quite steep
• DE = Its that the ate of goth fo ual is highe tha the goth fo ua
• DE = Is tricky to measure
Basic Concepts 2
Urban Hierarchy
• Ordering (and often ranking) of urban places by population size (and/or functions performed).
• From the 1930s Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver are the highest 30%.
• A hierarchy gives a nature of power, its associated to it.
• Toronto is a city of banking, trade
- 2011 3,000,000 – 5,590,000
- Barry biggest growth
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Basic Concepts 3
Metropolitanization
• Metropolitan areas (the largest urban areas) are growing faster than smaller urban areas (population is
shifting up the urban hierarchy).
Suburbanization
• Shifting population balance between suburban portions of metropolitan areas and the rest of the country.
Measuring Urban Places 1
• Urban places can be defined using a variety of different criteria
Principle Methods used:
• Population
- Minimize the size of settlement or agglomeration
- Minimum density
- Relying on population alone can be problematic
Economic Base
• Minimum proportion of the labour force in non-agricultural occupations
• Basic (city forming) and non-basic (city serving) goods and services
• Large urban area being 100
- Basic, add value, non-basic, they are just there.
Population Density
Measuring Urban places 2
Administrative
• Using some legal or administrative criteria
• But, comparative research is difficult
• Physical (and social) extent of the city can extend far beyond the administrative responsibility
Functional
• ‘eflet the eal etet of the ua ifluee
• Census data repressed in terms of functional definition
- Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in the US
- Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) in Canada
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Udestadig Ua Geogaph
• Understand/interpret the distribution of towns and cities
• Account for the differences and similarities between them and within them
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Document Summary
Ggr day 1 do citations = an form, report may be better graph for research. Defining the city subject of much debate and disagreement. Louis wirth (1938) large, dense relatively permanent settlements of socially heterogeneous people. Lewis mumford (1961) cities were a fundamental cultural institution: bunting and filion (2010) places of intense social interaction and exchange between strangers. Blunting and filion not different from louis. Common characteristics: dense concentration (agglomeration) of people and activities. Shifting population balance between urban and rural areas. Proportion of the total population that is living in urban places (% urban) Deurbanization (counter-urbanization: balance is shifting towards peripheral / rural areas, rural population growth is higher than urban population growth. Urban hierarchy: ordering (and often ranking) of urban places by population size (and/or functions performed). From the 1930s toronto, montreal, vancouver are the highest 30%: a hierarchy gives a nature of power, its associated to it.
