GGR124H1 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - Toronto, City, Canada
20 Nov 2018
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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.
