GEOG 2UI3 Lecture Notes - Urban Ecology, Human Ecology, Deindustrialization
16 Mar 2013
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Highlight relations between people and the urban environment. Relations between people and the urban environment. Environment: includes natural physical environment and the built environment. Built environment: created by humans, including roads, bridges, buildings, houses, schools, sidewalks. Draws on knowledge and methods from other disciplines comes from sociologists. Borrows from anthropology given us methods that urban geographers use to answer certain types of questions. Borrows from history: often asking why cities have developed in the way that they have. What makes it separate is the emphasis on special processes. Space: the medium in which economic, social, political and historic processes are expressed. Territoriality: the tendency for particular groups to establish control or dominate within localized area. Often established through symbols that sign identity. An important term for urban geography because it is part of what creates the distinctiveness of urban places. Distance: the amount of space between two things.
