GPHY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Socioeconomic Status, Social Isolation

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

Document Summary

Jobs were lost during 2007 and 2009. Lowest point was january 2009: calgary employment. Sharp increase but decreasing just as fast. Division of labour: minor, quarrying, oil and gas, population growth comparison. Bejing and shanghai population is very high. Detroit: 25% population decrease, 50% of manufacturing jobs eliminated. Calgary: 14. 6% population decrease, detroit"s industry: history. More people were moving to the towns where the factories were built which dropped population. 3 main companies: ford, chrysler, ram. City is till unstable because of automotive industry. Diversifying is how they can improve: calgary"s industry: history. Highest annual gdp across industry: geographic. Economic issues concerning cities: indigenous traditional way of life decreasing due to food insecurity. The division of labour: food 1, health 2, healthy foods. Helps grow: food availability in saskatchewan. Cost of food is expensive; more north is more expensive. Healthy food is not consistently available in grocery stores.