GGR124H1 Lecture Notes - Urban Geography, The Arts
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Human geography: how have humans altered and continue to alter the landscape and environment. Urban geography: the relationship between society and space in cities. The particular ways urban form influences process of change and their outcomes for society and other places. Is a site for things to happen and has generative properties (can make things happen, influence action) Cities are simultaneously the products and shapers of economic, social, and political change. (knox & mccarthy, 2005: 3) Place is the particular location where varying sets of socio-spatial relations interact (doreen massey) The meanings that are ascribed to a particular location that often allow for identities to be expressed spatially. The tendency for particular groups within a society to attempt to establish some for of control, dominance, or exclusivity within a localized area . (knox and mccarthy, 2005: 575) For some groups the space then becomes a part of their identity.
