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- *Space*
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- Geographic entities with distinct shapes, scales, and other properties that set the stage for certain kinds of human activities.
- As spaces are used and made meaningful by human beings, they become places.
- Both space and place can be used together (i.e. Chinatown but can be seen as an intersection or public transit space) - *Megacities*
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- Have populations of 10 million+
- The first cities to be defined as mega cities were Tokyo and New York. Later on Mexico city was added to that list.
-Started in the industrial and post-industrial cities
-Magnets for people, organizations, and economies and the fulcrum of many countries’ social and economic dynamics
-Megacities are not just cities of a large size, they are a new distinctive spatial form of social organization, economic production and political governance.
- *Gridiron*
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- Gridiron patterns were a success in the spread of urbanism
- Gridiron layouts allowed for multi-use neighbourhoods, a way to fix urbanism.
- Disperses traffic so makes faster travel times, eases walking so enhances community, puts an end to useless space. - *Industrial City*
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- Characterized by flourishing factories where thousands of people labour.
- They employed thousands of people through their great product selling across the world.
- Many men and women could move to these industrial cities, find a job quickly, make a great living, raise a family and stay there for years on end until deindustrialization. - *Time Space compression*
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- David Harvey coined the term “time–space compression†in his book "the condition of postmodernity" to refer to the way the acceleration of economic activities leads to the destruction of spatial barriers and distances.
- Massey says we need to recognize ourselves as social beings
- For example how a computer on wall street can transfer information to another computer in another part of the world and make money in seconds - *Urbanism*
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- A way of life associated with urban living. People in towns and cities interact with their surroundings, the structure of urban life and the problems that come along with it.
- Involves the socio-cultural asking why and how? Not where? Thinking about how spaces are used and how people can be considered urban but not live in a city. - *Sharrows*
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- Allows cyclists to cycle in the middle as if they were the car, and motorists have to accommodate to bikes
- Motorists have to take the speed of the cyclists
- *Pedal Power*
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- A global grass roots bike revolution that’s threatening the car and will transform the future of transportation
- It is from a documentary by the cbc that showcases the life on being a cyclist in the city, the advantages how it is faster to use to get to a destination and the disadvantage such as theft, injuries with cars of owning a bike and riding it in the city
- Bicycling is also shown as diverse and people of all races and classes ride them - *Urban Agriculture*
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- An industry that produces, processes, and markets food, fuel, and other outputs, largely in response to the daily demand of consumers within a town, city, or metropolis, on many types of privately and publicly held land and water bodies found throughout intra-urban and peri-urban areas
- Typically applies intensive production methods, frequently using and reusing natural resources and urban wastes, to yield a diverse array of land-, water-, and air-based fauna and flora, contributing to the food security, health, livelihood, and environment of the individual, household, and community
- Growing crops within our walls. Local supplies of fruit and vegetables are part of sustainability. to reduce the energy required to transport food from hundreds or thousands of miles away. It contributes to food security and poverty alleviation.
- Makes weaker cities stronger - *Streetcar Suburb*
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- Suburbs built following the streetcar lines.
- Some examples are scarborough town center and the st clair streetcar suburb.
- Walkability is the main purpose of the streetcar suburb.
- It also facilitated shopping and the purchasing of necessities while people are on their way home from work. - *Smart Growth*
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- A response to sprawl which promotes better housing and environmental quality by using mixed land use and compact building designs to create high density with lower environmental costs.
- Strategy to deal with the costly constant development on Greenfield sites on the city’s edge.
- It focuses on existing developments in order to utilize their infrastructures and to preserve open space and farmland
- Minimizes negative environmental impacts and promotes sustainability
Growth has been a dominant feature of all cities. They used to be a few square miles to hundreds of miles which we can no longer walk - *Cultural omnivores*
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- We today have become cultural omnivores
- We have all kinds of food in the city
- There are many options, we have knowledge of all foods which marks distinction, we are willing to try all foods
- From a video clip in class we saw a couple with an obsession about their food. They have an intimate knowledge. They asked many questions about their food and where it was from. - Food media
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- Celebrity Chefs, Cookbooks, Shows, Magazines, Star Ingredients, Gastro Porn
- Hard to decipher when fashion ends and when food begins
- Bacon as star ingredient – putting it on everything
- Giving significance to food watching a show on television