ENVS 2200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mumbai Metropolitan Region, Golden Horseshoe, Urban Renewal

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 2200
• Professor: Stefan Kipfer

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Banff: banff is a canada s first national park. Discussed by catriona sanilocks where the mountain men met the. It is important to understand banff s place in urban history even though national parks are designed and perceived as separate from urban life. A tension has remained from its establishment between iconic nature and a domestic nature. It is a romantic park shaped with heterosexual norms in mind, the belief that homosexuality may be urban but is unnatural does not belong in nature. Banff policing of the park was enforced with heterosexuality in mind, but today various parks are contested spaces used as cursing spaces for various lesbian/gay subcultures. Stanley park: is a huge urban park bordering downtown vancouver. It is an example of what jordan stranger refers to as municipal colonization. the area traditionally was property of many indigenous tribes; the last of these was the squamish tribe.