GEG 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cognitive Model, Plant Breeding, Byrsonima Crassifolia
11 Apr 2018
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Lecture 2 - why place matters and other foundational concepts. Often analyzed from perspective of locational analysis (why something should be located here. Or from marist or materialist perspective with an emphasis on examining relations of domination and resistance. How space is produced: through human activity; society constantly produces space by assigning economic or social value to space. Reliance on water power and fossil fuel exploitation, industrial mass production produced particular kinds of urban spaces. Industry close to ports or water power. Working class neighbourhoods close to sites of production. Grew organically - little overall organization of space. Many small neighbourhoods with tight social bonds. Usually approached from a more humanistic tradition that investigate the sense of place as. Importance of place: economic, social, cultural and political relations build the characteristics of a place through time (dynamic) (result of laying of activities) (constantly made and remade) Social and psychological: how to behave in particular places, depending on our roles.
