[GEOG 152] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (119 pages long)
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Layout, design, spacing, functions as signs of the times. Cities as seats of economic and cultural change. Merchant capitalism, political absolutism, movements for political change, industry. Cities as palimpsests (something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form) Venice, italy: now full of tourists, city advertises how it was once great. Palmyra, syria: iconoclasts of ruins, isis bombs these ruins to destroy idolatry (statues of saints, etc. ), because ruins seen as a reminder of a great civilization. Came from judaism in the middle east. Europe connected to other parts of the word through colonialism, trade. Each city is a node, their links are the networks. European cities are closely related to each other (paris and london are linked together more than they are with cities outside of. European airports are always connecting to each other before you can get to lax (i had to go through rome fco zurich airport lax)
