GGR124H1 Lecture Notes - Pacific Mall, Affordable Housing, Africville
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The head of a household is born outside canada, larger than average family size, more likely to have lower incomes. 60% are owners, 40% rent in canada alone. In geography, critical to talk about the differences between home and house, key differences include: House is physical, locateable, whereas, home is more personal, span in multiple locations, associated more with loved ones rather than a dwelling. Concentric zone model by the chicago school - social organization of the urban. Urban ecology by murdie - organized social space as ethnic, family, economic status and physical space. Murdie argued that economic status has sectoral patterns, family status has zonal effect (concentric zone matters when you have a family), ethnic status has clustered effects. He"s saying that the chicago model makes sense, but you have to see this in a 3d way, not created equally as it is all dependent on identity, family and income.
