GG102 Lecture 4: Gg102 lecture 4
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Gg102 lecture 4: examples of linguistic influence in north american places - french: Spanish: los angeles, las vegas, san francisco. Sequence of occupation: native, french, english cataraqui- fort. Urban studies: urbanization: not simply the growth and development of cities but also the qualitative and quantitative changes made over time in an urban area. Urban geographers are concerned with what makes towns and cities distinctive and how the distinctive identities evolved over time. Urban geographers also focus on the relationships between particular sets of urban areas and how they interact with towns, cities and territories around them. Connection between where people live and wind direction: middle and high class people and families will tend to live on the side of town from which the wind is blowing. This is done in order to avoid airborne pollution traveling in the wind from industrial areas.
