GGRB05H3 Lecture Notes - Dialectic, Centrality, In Essence
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Economic, social and political dynamics (more emphasis on this) Variable theories relating to all of above (most important, apply theories, definition and understandings of theories) Research paper: issues of transportation and mobility. What are the urban growth issues in toronto, 1 to 1. 5 pages to explain. Relate to the theories from the class. Focusing one single product of urbanization (contemporary) Urban geography provides an understanding of the living environments of a majority of the world"s population. Where most intensive economic, political, social, cultural aspects are manifest, at all levels. Cities are complex, fundamental transformations from rural to urban. Allows reflection on urban place and urban meanings. A complex dialectic of global and local factors glocalization. Triggers filtering through that dialectic to generate processes which in turn result in a complex of outcomes at numerous. In essence- the study of cities as systems within a system of cities. L. wirth- urbanism as a way of life .
