GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Redlining

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Sean Field

Document Summary

09/23/2014 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Climate march: taking a call for climate change to the streets . Gave up part of their oil company. Divested from fossil fuels major shift in environmentalism. Sold some of their oil stock divestment strategy. Us school districts given free machine gun and grenade launchers . Pentagon"s surplus program, not new, but came under scrutiny after how police responded to protesters in ferguson. Race relations behind the us how people identify themselves in a greater picture. What resources does one place have before another. Some people live in such close and tight proximities. See a greater domestic police force and wall as population density gets larger. Rent gap thesis the physical deterioration and economic depreciation of inner-city neighborhoods is a strictly logical, rational outcome of the land operation of the land and housing market: slum neighborhoods. Don mitchell, smith"s student: looks at migratory labor, esp. foreign labor.