GEO 793 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Go Transit, Capital Accumulation, Air Canada
9 Dec 2015
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The toronto region sees two different but interrelated. The region is strategically situated at the crossroads of rail and movements: goods, people roads that connect it to, northern ontario, quebec, atlantic canada, western canada, the us and mexico. Urban regions are in competition to attract global capital and are therefore building globalized superstructure (ex. Such globalized superstructures are interlinked wither localized transportation and transit systems that serve the everday needs of the resident population. New rhythms and scales of production, exchange, and consumption have effected urban geography in the toronto region. This new geography is centred at person airport (canada"s largest airport) The area around pearson is occupied by industrial buildings and crossed by a web of superhighways and major arterial roads. Highways have replaced rails as the main avenue to ship goods across canada. It provides access to 60 cities in the us. Pearson is governed by the greater toronto airport authority (gtaa) under a private not-for-profit model.
