GEOG 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: South Los Angeles, Subculture, Acting Crazy
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Fall 2012 significant concentration but does not necessarily constitute a majority. They are basically suburban ethnic clusters of residential areas and business districts in large metropolitan areas. They are distinct spatial forms often shaped by political, economic. Ethnoburb these are multi-ethnic communities, where one ethnic group has a factors within the us and by global geopolitics and us immigration and trade. Scale this is basically a (cid:498)scale of analysis(cid:499) measuring a relative size or extent; geographers tend to use to it to measure the (cid:498)scale(cid:499) of a problem. For example, the (cid:498)global(cid:499) this is a scale for approaching/evaluating/understanding social and policies. Ex = wei li discusses in her piece how the chinese in monterey park constitute an ethnoburb. local/ community, the city/urban, and the global/planet. Importantly, cultural geographers pay close attention to the global scale for approaching and understanding social and environmental issues around the world. environmental issues around the world.
