Midterm 1 Flashcards
(62 cards)
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What is space
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an area on the earths surface of any size.
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when we look at something with spatial perspective it means..
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we are observing variations in some geography phenomena or activity across space
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a space often has
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unclear or undefined boundaries which mean different things to different people
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what is location
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geographic situation or position of people and things
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true or false: a location can precisely be determined?
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true
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locations help to establish the
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context within which events and processes are situated
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what are the two meanings of scale?
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- the territorial or spatial extent of something
2. distance on a map
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describe the first meaning of scale
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- what happens at the global scale can affect the local scale and vice versa and every level in-between
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what is large scale?
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large scale, large detail. You would measure a classroom or something very detailed on the map.
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what are the three main types of maps?
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- reference map
- thematic map
- mental (concept) map
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describe reference map
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- focus on the accuracy showing the absolute locations of places, using a coordinated system that allows for the precise plotting of where something is on earth
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describe thematic map
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- tell stories of narratives showing the degree of some attribute or the movement of a geographic phenomena
- Eg. Peter Gould, the slow plague
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describe mental map
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- are maps in our minds. They can be of places we have been or locations and places we have merely imagined.
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examples of geomatic technology
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- remote sensing
- gis
- gps
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four types of projections
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- cylindrical
- conic
- planar
- interrupted
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describe cylindrical projections
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- paper that is wrapper around the world
- most accurate where the paper touches
- bad for the poles (if the paper is around the equator)
- europeans invented this because they wanted to explore the area around the equator
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who invented the first cylindrical projection and when
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mercator in 1569
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who improved mercator map and when
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robinson 1963
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describe conic projections
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- like putting a cone over the globe
- for where the most people live - in NH
- europeans wanted better mapping for the north
- not accurate for the equator
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describe planar projections
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- best for mapping the poles
- developed for the poles
- shows how close together the continents are
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describe interrupted
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- scale of land masses are completely accurate
- good for mapping lands
- bad for oceans
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describe John Snows map
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- map of cholera in the UK in 1854
- was the queens doctor
- made a map between cholera cases and water pumps
- took the handle off the pumps and cholera stopped
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details of early haida gwaii map
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- first mapped by George Dixon and was not very detailed
- not detailed because he wanted to claim that land even though people were already living there
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social geography
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- has a lot to do with identity
- asking key geographic questions about social factors and social phenomena
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identity
- partly defined by yourself, partly by others
| - We construct our own identities thorough experiences, emotions, connections, and rejections
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types of social idenities
- race
- religion
- sexuality
- gender
- ethnicity
- class
- language
- age groupings
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what is intersectionality
- people have multiple identities which can change in different contexts
intersecting identities
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relationship between place and identity
people associate places with their identity which gives places meanings
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difference between location, space, and place
people are prepared to defend places because they're tired in with their identity
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what is placelessness
people can feel this when they lost a place that is important to them or when human landscapes appear similar or become indistinguishable
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definition of a city
a conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics
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definition of an urban area
the entire build up, non-rural area and its population, including the space of the central city and suburbs
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what is urbanization
the process of how cities change and grow over time
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what does it mean to be urbanized
the relative proportion of people living in urban areas tells us how urbanized the country is
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suburb
a subsidiary urban area surrounding and connected to the central city. ,many are functionally uniform
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what is the CBD
central business district - is in the heart of downtown
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what is a zone
- piece of the city that has a specific use
| - an area of a city with a relatively uniform land use or function such as industrial zone or a residential zone
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central city
- urban area that is not suburban
| - generally older or original city surrounded by suburbs
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two meanings for residential neighbourhoods
1. 1920s clarence perry designed neighbourhoods to be safe for children
2. a cultural concept - people living in a community in a particular place. they create meaning
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urban morphology
the study of physical form and structure of urban places
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3 models of north american cities
1. concentric zones (Burgess)
2. sector model (hoyt)
3. multiple nuclei model (Ullman and Harris)
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describe the concentric zone model
- Ernest burgess
- from his study in chicago in the 1920s
- divides the city into 5 zones by function
1. CBD
2. transition zone - residential deterioration and encroachment by businesses
3. blue collar - lower class workers
4. transition zone - buffer of working class
5. commuters and the suburbs
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describe sector model
- homer hoyt in 1939
- the city grows outward
- lower class live next to trains thats go all night
- middle class as buffers
- higher class live farther away near parks and green spaces
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describe multiple nuclei model
Chauncey Harris and Edward Ullman in 1945
- based on the motorcar
- suburbs developed CBDs of their own because CBD was losing dominance as the nuclei
- people want to live in suburbs
- lower class where the work is
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latin american model
- ernest griffin and larry ford 1980
- developed model to describe latin american cities
- vibrant CBD
- disammentites sector outside of city where the poorer people live
- rich people live downtown - opposite from other models
- zone of in city accretion - things are going up
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south east asian model
TG Magee 1967
- model entered on the port zone - shipping to europe
- government zone surrounded by high class residents, parks
- squatter cities - poorer people lived below
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sub saharan africa model
- foul berg et al. 2012
- 3 CBDs
- townships coincide with race
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what is urban sprawl
unrestricted growth of na houses, commercial places, and roads over a large piece of land
it is not necessarily planned
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what is a mega city
population greater than 10 million
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what is a mega urban region
population of 1 million or more within a continuous territory inhabited at urban levels of high residency density
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what is commercialization
transformation of an area into an area with greater economic activity
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what is gentrification
when people buy up and rehabilitate houses in a previous abandoned or rundown neighbourhood increasing the house value
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what is new urbanism
creating walkable neighbourhoods with a diversity of housing and jobs. counters urban sprawl
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what is urban hierarchy
when you line up cities by their population from largest to smallest
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what is a primate city
it is when the first city is way bigger than the second
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what is rank size rule
Chris taller said that the population size of a city in the urban hierarchy has a direct relationship to the population size of the largest city
- population of biggest city x 1/n of its rank
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what is central place theory
- Christaller 1993
- Tried to explain how and where central places such as cities, towns, and villages, in the urban hierarchy should be functionally and spatially distributed with respect to one another
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mega city vs. world city
- a mega city is a city that has over 10 million people
| - a world city does not have a size but is more connected to the rest of the world than to their country
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describe culture
- it is a set of shared belief systems, norms, and values practiced by a particular group of people
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describe urban local culture
- a local culture enables a tight nit community to practice within a larger city
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whats is cultural consumption
Turning cultural artifacts or traditions or values or arts into a commercial venture separate from the traditions from which they came and often without benefit to the communities whose culture is appropriated for this purpose
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what are spaces of consumptin
areas of the city specifically designed to encourage people to consume goods and services often driven by fashion, current trends etc,
