GGRA03H3 : Cities and Environments lecture summaries
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Lecture 6: ecology ecologies of cities not ecologies in cities-new way of understanding and seeing cities and urban processes. Ecology-study of the realions of living organisms to each other and their surroundings. ecology studies flows within particular ecosystems and subsytems that structure those flows. cities are special kind of ecosystem. 4 main competing theories: hydralic theory: control over water is essential both for irrigation and transportation corridors. Resources needed to to create irrigation systems creates a need for governance system that can mobilize large investments of labour power. Graham and marvin describe socio polarization as spintering cities and the decline of the modern infrastructure ideal. now there is no one to pay for the needed services. Health issues:obesity, asthma, mental illness. where there is a lot of cars there tends to be greater chance of traffic accidents. Lecture 8: urban ecosystems: researchers have been developing the understanding that cities are a complex ecosystem.
