GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Moosejaw, Telecommuting, Neocolonialism
27 Apr 2016
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Eg. sodomy still illegal in singapore despite active gay culture: yet cities have always hubs of innovation and invention. Economic change in canadian cities: locational dynamics of employment employment and urban transition in canada: increasing importance of cities reflected in this class, 2/3 of canada"s population and jobs are located in the 33 metropolitan areas. Problem for secondary cities: increasing share of national population, employment, services, advanced industrial capacity concentrated in bigger cities, toronto, montreal, vancouver, ottawa-gatineau, calgary and edmonton: increasingly influential in canada"s national economic systems, social agenda, policy. More and more decisions are being made in fewer places. Secondary cities (eg. victoria, moosejaw etc. ) feeling more and more marginalized: representative of many trends in the developed world. Employment: an important metric: helps us understand processes of growth and change, quality and quantity of jobs created, labour force participation rates = leading indicators of national, regional, metropolitan economies.
