GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Population Ageing, Geopolitics
11 Apr 2018
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Description of the spatial organizations (patterns) of people, places, and human phenomena. Explanation of the processes that produce these patterns. Interpretation of what these patterns mean (i. e. the significance or meaning of these patterns) A number of local and global issues have been touched upon in this course, each of these issues will be of greater importance in the future: cultural diversity and change: Globalization of culture (e. g. global languages, universalizing religions, popular culture) vs. the diversity of culture (e. g. ethnic religions, folk cultures, etc. : population and health: Population growth and an uneven spatial distribution. Issues of population aging: cities and urbanization: A shift from a largely rural to urban society; a significant cultural change- a change in the (cid:858)way of life(cid:859) of a society. Issues of sprawl, segregation, poverty, gentrification, etc: geopolitics:
