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How did Cities Emerge ?
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Through religious, defensive, and Economic reasons
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What was the first city, how did it become?
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Mesopotamia in Egypt, came about through agriculture
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What are the two types of Urbanization, explain them.
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1) Demographic: exceeding some thresh hold of population
2) Economic: existence or absence of economic activity |
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What is urbanism
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A social or cultural transition that occurs
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Urban Morphology
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physical structure of a city (land use)
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The outcome of interactions between people and their environments is __________________________.
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The Cultural Landscape
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What is a symbolic landscape?
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A landscape that has significance, meaning, and cultural relativism.
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Who developed the Ancient Wonders of the World
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Herodotus
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Name the Modern Wonders of the World
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1) Great wall of chine
2) Modestry of Petra 3) Maya City of Chechen 4) Matu Petu 5) Colosseum 6) Taj Mahal 7) Christ the Redeemer 6) Pyramids of Giza |
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How it the worlds global population divided in terms of settlement?
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50% in Urban Areas
50% in Rural Areas *** note that the 50/50 split is not even between countries! |
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In lecture we talked about the geography of sport, explain what the map revealed.
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NFL participation was dense in the south eastern part of the US where football is a huge part of the culture.
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Name the three main aspects of culture referred to in lecture.
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Music
Food Sport |
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What is rural depopulation linked to?
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Industrialization
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Family Farms have evolved and through industrialization are now owned by _________________.
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companies
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Explain Urban Fringe
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The area of transition between urban and rural areas
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What is Geminschaft?
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Communal, personal contacts, rural
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What word is used to describe a place that is depersonalized, anonymous, urban?
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Gesellschaft
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What is a region?
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A part of the earth which is different from its surrounding areas based on a set of criteria.
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Regions are most well distinguished through their _________________.
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Landscapes
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What is a language family?
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A group of closely related languages that share a common ancestor.
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What is a language branch?
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A subset of a language family, where language grows and develops. It has a more recent origin.
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What are the two main Language Families?
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1) Indo-European: Romance Languages, such as Spanish, French, Italian
2) Sino-Tebetan: Germanic Languages, such as English, Russian, German |
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What are the three most commonly used languages on a global scale?
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1) Mandarin
2) Spanish 3) English |
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The process of transforming low quality housing and poor areas in to a high class and desirable area of living is referred to as ____________________.
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Gentrification
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What is a place?
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location + meaning = place
a location that has meaning, either to an individual or to a group of people. |
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The social or cultural way of thinking about a city is __________________.
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Urbanism
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What is diffusion?
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The movement or spread of geographic phenomena across space and time.
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What are the two forms of diffusion? Explain them.
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1) Relocation Diffusion: the spread of ideas and cultural characteristics. Physical movement of people, surnames in a neighbourhood are an induction.
2) Expansion Diffusion: the spread of innovation within a single area. Occurs in a snowballing process and has two subtypes. |
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What are the two subtypes of expansion diffusion?Explain them.
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Hierarchical - ideas leap frog from one area to another based on status, usually technology (iphone example)
Contagious - wide spread and rapid, like disease or gossip. |
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The concentric zone model was created by who?
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Ernest Burges
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Explain the concentric zone model. And the five concentric rings.
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Neighbourhoods associated with social groups.
1) CBD - commercial,social, civic life and transportation 2) zone of transition - immigrants, cheep 3) Zone of workers homes 4) High-class (single family) 5) Commuter zone - highest class, lots $ |
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Sector Model is by ______________.
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Homer Hoyt
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What is the sector model.
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- multiple nuclie model
1) urban change: relative + absolute growth 2) urban growth: increase in size ---> people to land 3) urbanization: to become more urban, increase population in cities (world undergoing specific change) |
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Explain the increase of urban communities around the world:
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1800 - 3%
1900 - 15% today - 50% 2030 - 60% |
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Relocation Diffusion:
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the spread of out ideas culture and characteristics: physical movement of people
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Expansion Diffusion:
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the spread of innovation within a single area in a snowballing process: two subtypes.
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Explain the two subtypes of Expansion Diffusion.
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1) Hierarchal: ideas leap frog to people and cities based on status
2) contagious - rapid and wide spread, like gossip and disease. |
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What is the agricultural surplus theory ?
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Hunter and gatherer societies and the domestication of plants. The permanent settlement and specialization of people.
cultural evolution --> urbanization --> culture |
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Explain the types of populations pyramids
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Expanding, Stable, diminishing.
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Explain the cholorpleth map of Toronto.
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west - Italian
center right - Chinese waterfront right - english |
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What is Atheism?
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disbelief in existence of gods
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The view that gods are known and knowledgeable.
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Agnosticism
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The belief in more then one 1 god.
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Polytheistic
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Explain Centrifugal Forces
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works to move states apart
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the force that works to keep states together
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Centripetal Forces
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