GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Urban Design

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GEO 106
• Professor: Shazzat Hossain

Document Summary

Place is a location in space imbued with unique attributes that set it apart from other. Has objective attributes (size, ethnicity, income levels) and subjective attributes (big, exciting, or crime ridden). Places are not merely the built environment, but total environment comprised of physical space, people , furnishings machines, secondary attributes, action and meanings. Places are not so much things as sets of expectation-they are collaborations between you and the attributes of the place, the outcomes of which can be good, neutral or bad. It is not just classroom that are a meaning imbued by its inhabitants-all front country environment do. Behaviour - doing things appropriate to the space rules - doing what is expected of you image - doing what you expect of the place. That depends on religion, on order of the rituals, and on exactly what it is you are singing and how you are dancing. Conformity to the code defines your place in a place.