GPHY 227 Lecture 1: GPHY 227 All Class Notes
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Term paper proposal:: discuss three ways that inequality is manifested in urban geography in canada. What is the relationship between these three manifestations? ! De ne aspects and terms that you are using! 1 page single-spaced times new roman 12 point front! Discuss one city (maybe a city you know well)! Food deserts: places in the city that are devoid of places to access food, look at it quantitatively (many ways of looking at this problem), look at the different ways people access food (online, nontraditional supermarkets)! In 2000, for the rst time, a majority of the world"s population live in cities: south is where most of the expansion is taking place! Unprecedented rates of urbanization are now occurring! Globalization has enhanced the role of cities! Urban areas house half of all the world"s people and continue to grow in rich and poor countries (china and india are growing)!