GGR252H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Revolution, Subsistence Agriculture, World-Systems Theory
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Understand and interpret the distribution of towns and cities. Discipline is eclectic for every discipline there s a urban component. Human behavior is based on ecological principles. Most powerful groups obtain the most advantageous place in a given space the power people got control of the area , they lived on the best land they have a greater income. Homo-economicus or economic rationality of human behavior. Emerged in the 1970s as a reaction to scientific determinism failed to include human decision making, not everyone is rational: behavioral. Focused on decision making, on human behavior but in a. Model like way still seeking a set of generalization: humanistic. Deeply subjective and complex relationships between individuals and groups, and the places the exist. Techniques drawn from the humanities e. g. use of film, writing, paintings, etc. (how is the city represented in art work. , and what does that tell you about the relationships people may have in the urban area )