CITB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Urban Sprawl, Manhattanization, Focus Group
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What are reasons for the this image. Intensification getting people to the core and closer in. If you bring people closer to where housing is already there, is smarter. Toronto is manhattanization- dynamics of intensification through high rise development. There are more ways of accommodating growth. Some people state that it is going to far: extremely busy, existing infrastructure is not keeping up with the growth of the city. The blind men and the elephant story relates tot the fact that perspective are different but when put together they come together as one concept. Advantages: too many cooks in the kitchen . Disadvantage: methodically weak in the choice of methods. Quantitative research: more on the details of data, large , numerical data, statistical analysis, ex) census. Qualitative research: more on the larger scale. Cross-sectional vs longitudinal research: we look at a particular point of time and understand that, transformation overtime (longitudinal, data sets from different points of time.
