GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Urban Sprawl, Iceberg, Gordon Lightfoot

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Anne Godlewska

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It even featured with a major article in the economist in july 2013 soon after the city. But because people have moved away, without the tax base to do so. In the 1980s it was described as looking like the victim of a sadistic aerial. With an accumulated debt of billion dollars or ,000 for each resident. Largely the result of a weak economy and the flight of its population. Out of 1. 8 million people in 1963, only 700, 000 remained in 2013. In our previous lecture we talked about the difference between canadian and american cities. One of the differences between canada and the us is that canada does not have a detroit. Detroit is such a persistent disaster area that it has drawn huge academic, political and literary attention (ze ev chafets devils night) declared bankruptcy. And of those who remain, most are the relatively poor and uneducated.