GGR124 FINAL EXAM (100%Rated Best for Final Exam Preparations) 2024.
Section A: Definitions (70% of exam -- from exam elections)
● Define and
... [Show More] discuss the geographic significance of all ten of the following terms,
concepts, and places
○ Provide examples from the course readings, films, and lectures wherever possible
Exam Election Concepts:
a) Define
b) Explain significance to urban geography --why is this important?
c) Provide examples -- readings/podcasts for the week (ie. how it was applied to modern geography)
Concept Definition Significance to Urban
Geography
Examples
Time-space
Compression
Compression of geographic
space by faster means of
transport/communication
→ relational (not absolute)
conception of space
-Depends on geographic
barriers
(economic, global and
political)
- Relationships between
places change depending on
infrastructure (a result of
decisions and plans)
- Relies on access to
transportation/communication
(skype, subway lines), ie.
infrastructure and its
maintenance, cost of use and
political restrictions
- Power geometries also
emphasize the uneven
experience of time-space
compression (impacts people
differently)
- In Toronto, new subway
line (Travel time to York
University before vs.
now)
- JOURNEY TIME FROM
LONDON TO PARISsignificantly reduced
through the introduction
of the train, in
comparison to car
More affordable than
flying
Refugee camp in Paris
where someone died
trying to go to the UK
-Skype Calls,
-Access to Subway lines
in general to increase
movement within a
space.
-As discussed in lecture,
restructuring (EP)
Economic- Growth of
primary cluster( high-level
business service)-i.,e
telecommunications,
education)
Growth of Secondary
Cluster (employment)
More construction or
ability to create more
subway lines and
transportation techniques
and telecommunication
towers
5th cluster government's
role in the creation to
build and reproduce
planning, transportation
and policing.
-gentrification of formerly
industrial areas.
-As explained in
Massey’s Global Sense
of Place…
-Can also be related to
the Slavery reading... if
slaves wanted to move
around freely they
needed a pass from their
owner, African
Americans, not the same
mobility as white.
BOTH BELTS
REPRESENT
AGREEMENT: and
RECONCILIATION
Two Row Wampum
-Reconcil: relationship
building… has to be
co-created and
continually acted
upon
Agreement between the
original people of Turtle
Island and European
immigrants that signified
the decision of the groups
to remain independent
together
→ 2 Purple rows of beads on
a white background
-White: peace, friendship,
respect
-purple: two vessels travelling
down the same river.
-go the same way; show they
move side by side together
through the river of life, but
avoid overlapping or
interfering with each other
-One row is the
Haudenosaunee laws and
customs the other is the
Europeans laws and customs.
-Remain independent
together.
- Haudenosaunee that
indigenous nations defend
today
-Sharing land
- Reconciliation and repair in
Toronto
-Continue aboriginal tradition,
Native peoples are integrally
involved in the history and
knowledge of the land we live
in today.
-Built for the basis of all future
Haudenosaunee
relationships.
-***TRW reading:
foundational philosophical
principle for non-domination
balance, and harmony for
different forces that can be
translated to many scenarios.
-Peace, respect and
friendships rows=NATIONTO-NATION, human and the
environment and
lovers/partner relationships
-Can function as a framework
for decolonization to maintain
themselves on their own land
based on their own systems
of self-governance,
organization and economics
rather than being driven by
profitability and production for
markets.
- Two Row Wampum belt
-From the TRW reading:
“Neither of us will try to
steer each other’s vessel”
-Avoid issues including in
the Native History
reading: THE TORONTO
PURCHASE (1787-1805)
The agreement for the
land where Sir John
Johnson and Col John
Cutler left a blank spot in
the agreement, to be
filled in after the fact/
Leading to unfair
treatment of the
aboriginal peoples. *More
land was taken from them
that was not agreed
upon.
*Going against the Two
Row Wampum
-Aboriginal naming of
streets still exist
(Spadina)?
-TRW reading: crisis of
capitalism intensifying the
anniversary i9s a good
time to reflect and
redefine the relationship
between indig and non
indig peoples.
-Within Rowe & Tucks
Settler Colonialism
Handbook Colonialism
can be related to this
because it is defined as:
-INEQUALITY of indigenous
from accessing adequate
income, housing, education
acquiring full or partial
political control over
another country
-VANCOUVER becoming
the world’s first city of
reconciliation.3rd highest
aboriginal population
focused on inciting things
to better aboriginal life
like: housing and shelter,
employment etc
Dish with 1 Spoon
-Between indigenous
-Agreement between the
Anishinabe, Mississauga
and Haudenosaunee
people that signifies the
responsibility of the 3
groups to share the
Southern Ontario “Dish”
and protect the land
-Peacefully share land and
resources
→ everyone eats out of the
same dish, so it’s
everyone's responsibility
to make sure it is
accessible and never
empty (no knifes at the
table; signifies that there
is no violence)
-Mutually beneficial to hunt,
fish, food and free travel
(Mobility across land)
- Responsibility since the
cultures in Toronto are
dynamic and interacted (trade
and commerce)
-why not acknowledge
Toronto as One Dish One
Spoon territory because it is
one of the most multicultural
cities in the world
-Not compatible with
European notions of private
ownership.
1 Dish 1 Spoon
Wampum belt
-First Nations still use
One Dish One Spoon
Agreement.
-Tkaronto trade
agreement indigenous
trade network
-Caledonia Standoffrapid urbanization making
conflicts between cities
and indig people over
land encroachment?
-At Queen and Dufferin
billboard advertising how
Canadians should see
themselves as living in
the dish.
(We are diverse but can
live together peacefully if
we respect our mutual
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