GGRA02H3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Gentrification, Economic Globalization, Cultural Globalization
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Geography: definition: the study of the spatial organization of human activity and of people"s relationships with their environments. Organization" points to a broad number of relations including a consideration of economics, culture, politics and other social processes. *global finance is connected to specific locations in a series of. Gentrification, sprawl, decline, ethnoburbs": the challenge of place: If place is really a meeting place then the lived reality of our daily lives" is far from being localised in its connections, its sources and resources, and in its repercussions, that daily life" spreads much wider (massey, Globalization: definition: globalization is a process and a condition that involves increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world through common processes of economic, environmental, political and cultural change. (knox, Marston and nash,2010: emerging communication technologies, new corporate strategies, new governance frameworks, overall, increasing interconnection is said to define contemporary forms of globalization, *globalization: conventional understandings.
