GEG 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Economic Globalization, Urban Design, Semiotics
11 Apr 2018
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Shopping patterns related to imagery encourage by a retail environment. Peacemaking always been a mix of purposeful and accidental actions. Over last 30 years (due to globalization) people"s attachment to places has been going through tremendous change. Information technology and forces of economic globalization re creating places in which the social relations that make places unique" or different" are being trumped by urban design intense to encourage consumption. Simulacrum: representative image of something or something that has a vague, tentative or shadowy resemblance to something. A re-valorization of the past, but reinvented to incorporate contemporary technologies. Design oblivious to real traditions and people who occupied spaces. Use place as way to create an experience and sell products. Use tried and true" designs to encourage consumption and to distract - longer stay in a mall , more likely to buy. Problem / criticism: people have little authentic attachment to these places.
