GPHY 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Urban Geography, Economic Regions Of Russia, Complex System
25 Mar 2020
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Geographers study the role of space in a variety of processes such as economics at politics. Absolute space mathematical understanding of space (distance, area, etc) Relational space space produced and given meaning by people and the relationship between places. Place refers to the meaning that people give locations. Scale refers to local levels of analysis from the local to the global, often based on common administrative structures levels as scale. Spatial justice - the fairness of the distribution of society"s burdens and benefits. In canadian politics we can think of municipal, provincial and federal. Urban geography explains the spatial distribution of towns and cities, and the similarities and differences between them and with them. Includes studying processes that go beyond the boundaries of an individual city, but which effect urban life. Cities can be defined in terms of population metrics, economic regions, sociocultural imaginations, administrative boundaries, and so on
