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Human geography
Deals with people's relationships with their environments and spatial organization of human activity.
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Physical geography
Deals with Earth's natural processes and their outcomes.
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Geographers have contributed at 3 levels/scales of analysis:
- 1. Local
- 2. National
- 3. Global
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Forces of change in Kelowna?
- 1. Aging population
- 2. Influx of wealthy older people
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Geographic knowledge is important because the world is increasingly characterized by:
- Instant global communications
- Unfamiliar international relationships
- Unexpected local change
- Growing evidence of environmental degradation
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Factors that contribute to city urbanization:
- Environmental change
- Demographic change
- Political change
- Cultural change
- Social change
- Technological change
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City
- A concentration of people with a distinctive way of life in terms of employment patterns and lifestyle.
- A high degree of specialized land uses and a wide variety of social, economic, and political institutions that coordinate the use of facilities and resources in the city make them complex machines.
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Globalization
A process and a condition that involves the increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world through common processes of economic, environmental, political and cultural change.
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For a city to attract people, must have:
- Talent
- Technology
- Tolerance (for diversity of people)
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Gender Equality
- Women more likely to work in informal economy - gov't has no control over wages, don't pay taxes.
- Women tend to make less than men and work longer hours.
- Also inequality in education, life expectancy and income.
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Micro-system
An independent system of countries lived by economic and political competition.
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Core
Regions that dominate trade, control the most advanced technologies, and have high levels of productivity within diversified economies.
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Peripheral
Regions with dependent and disadvantageous trading relationships, obsolete technologies, and underdeveloped or narrowly specialized economies with low levels of productivity.
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Semi-peripheral
Regions that are able to exploit peripheral regions but are themselves exploited and dominated by core regions.
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Problems in Kelowna vs. Vancouver
- Aging population in Kelowna
- Homeless and cultural diversity is higher in Vancouver
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