GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Old Toronto, Nature One, Permafrost
14 Jun 2018
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DAY 1 NOTES
Key Concepts:
- Space → Spatial patterns
- Location → Location analysis
- Place → Sense of placelessness
- Mental Imagery
Space → Spatial patterns
- An example of space and spatial patterns is like a classroom filled with desks
arranged in a random patterns
Location → Location analysis
- Location - is a specific point on a map (can also be latitude and longitude)
- Example: Yonge and Sheppard
- Location analysis - identifying why certain things are placed where they are
- Example : Where are hospitals located? Why are they located there?
Where should they be?
- The Humber River hospital opened in 2015 and closed 3 smaller hospitals
- By closing the smaller hospitals and opening a bigger one we are
making → location decisions
- Negative effect on low income families that can’t travel far
- Example: Van Attack → gives the location a specific meaning → place
(due to the attack)
Place → Sense of place placelessness
- Place is associated with the significance of it
- Placelessness → all shopping malls are the same
Mental Imagery
- Mental map determines our spatial behaviour
- These concepts are similar but don't mean the same thing
- Our decision are based on the physical geography too
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- We aware with many more places then we interacted with → mental awareness
- Activity space → places where you have been
Rosedal vs Parkdale
- More trees and high income vs low income
Venice
- Venice is very popular touring
- Climate change → physical geography
- Rising water levels → the city is sinking
- They build lagoon barrier to beat the floods
- Some of the reason of it is because of our activity
- The earth goes through natural periods of warming and cooling
- Glaciers expand → because it’s warm but colder when it snows even
though its warmer
- Permafrost in the dorsen city-- 60% of the land is frozen nature
- One of the main talks about climate change is about the vulnerabilities and
how do you provide for the impact locations
- Netherlands is below the sealand
Rising water levels
- Heat makes stuff rise
- Warmth and ice is melting -- 2 reasons
Aerial photo
- It is the large space
- Central Business district → central business district
- Modern built
- Highway
- Domes
- Evergreen trees
Why are there so many construction cranes in toronto then others?
- 2.7 million population for the city of toronto
- 6 million is the gta
- The city of toronto is building vertically more than horizontally
- Building up is more expensive than building wide
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- There is no space to go out on (space? No green space left)
- The land left is very expensive to buy (economic, supply and
demand)
- Changing demographics
- The kids growing up
- Some cultures ethnically find high density ok
Intensification policy
- The city recently put out a new policy to solve space issues
Avenue Development
- They are well serviced now by the public therefore we should develop more
- Key transit routes
Brownfields development
- Use to be industrial sites now reused
- Example: The harbour front
Downtowns development
- There are 6 municipalities:
- North york, East york, Scarborough, Old Toronto, York, Etobicoke
- Building lots of condos
CMA - Central Metropolitan Areas
Mountain Photo
- The CBD includes → high rise buildings, offices, hotels
- Very high in density
Mental Imagery (Mental Maps)
- Designative imaging (what is where?)
- Example: Venice, Timbuktu → we know where they are located,
awareness of the location
- Appraisive imagery (what we feel about a place)
- Our judgement on it
- How we feel about it
- Example: what is a negative thing about venice
- Sea level rising & city is sinking & it is a more tourists site then
normal people living
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Document Summary
An example of space and spatial patterns is like a classroom filled with desks arranged in a random patterns. Location - is a specific point on a map (can also be latitude and longitude) Location analysis - identifying why certain things are placed where they are. The humber river hospital opened in 2015 and closed 3 smaller hospitals. By closing the smaller hospitals and opening a bigger one we are making location decisions. Negative effect on low income families that can"t travel far. Example: van attack gives the location a specific meaning place (due to the attack) Place is associated with the significance of it. Placelessness all shopping malls are the same. These concepts are similar but don"t mean the same thing. Our decision are based on the physical geography too. We aware with many more places then we interacted with mental awareness. Activity space places where you have been. More trees and high income vs low income.
