Geography 2010A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Staples Thesis, Resource-Based Economy, Solar Transition Region
5 Feb 2018
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The sense of place: a sense of place involves a psychological bond between people and their location, these step from the physical landscape of the area, human activities, and institutional bodies. It recognizes that collective experiences have led to shared aspirations, concerns, goals, and values. Strong senses of place in canada are particularly evident in atlantic canada and the prairies. Proportion of regional population: 1/3 of canadians used to live in quebec, now it is 1/4, a concern for them, things have shifted west. The core/periphery model: the model describes interaction among regions and is evident in canada, this is a concept where both parts are dependant on each other but the core (industrial heartland) It is also referred to as the heartland/hinterland model. It is based on a theory that capitalist economics results in regionally uneven development dominates the economic relationship with its periphery (resource hinterland)
