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Geography 106

Geography 106. “It’s not true that dogs see only in black and white. Dogs see what they want to see.”. You are your own dog. THE MECHANICS. What, Who, Where, When. WHAT, WHO , WHERE.

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Geography 106

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  1. Geography 106

  2. “It’s not true that dogs see only in black and white. Dogs see what they want to see.” You are your own dog.

  3. THE MECHANICS What, Who, Where, When

  4. WHAT, WHO, WHERE Geography 106The Geographies of Everyday LifeDr. Philip CoppackJorgenson 609pcoppack@geography.ryerson.cawww.geography.ryerson.ca/coppack/geo106Course Outline is on the course websiteTHIS IS NOT A BLACKBOARD SITE!

  5. What the website looks like… www.geography.ryerson.ca/coppack/geo106

  6. WHEN www.geography.ryerson.ca/coppack/geo106 Section 021 lecture takes place in Theatre 13. Section 011 lecture takes place in Theatres 10 & 23.

  7. www.geography.ryerson.ca/coppack/geo106 Required Text: Carlson E. and Coppack P.M. (2010)Geographies of Everyday Life. Toronto: McGraw Hill. F is ‘Forever’ Friday, November 14th Final date to withdraw from an undergraduate program (OR COURSE) for the Fall 2014 term in good Academic Standing (no refund of Fall 2014 fees).

  8. LECTURE SCHEDULE www.geography.ryerson.ca/coppack/geo106

  9. www.geography.ryerson.ca/coppack/geo106

  10. www.geography.ryerson.ca/coppack/geo106

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  13. www.geography.ryerson.ca/coppack/geo106 TUESDAY AND THURSDAY ONE HOUR CLASSES WE WILL NOT BE HAVING CLASSES TUESDAY FOR SECTION 012 AND THURSDAY FOR SECTION 011 EXCEPT FOR THIS WEEK. You will use the Tuesday and Thursday slots to do self study exercises. The exercises will not be graded but will show up on your terms tests and the final. The course outline has a schedule of Tuesdays and Thursdays and what you need to be doing.

  14. Self Study Exercises

  15. Self Study Exercises

  16. List of Self Study Exercises: Self-Study Exercise #1: Personal Space(s) During the course one week starting today, observe (take notes on) 3 different environments, such as the TTC (subway or bus) during and outside rush hour, a night club/pub night on a weekend, bank or grocery store line-ups on a busy weekend. Make note of what you see with respect to the personal space of people and their attributes: females versus males, different ethnicities, income levels, ages, familiarity levels (friends, acquaintances, etc). Self-Study Exercise #2: Perception Spend the hour with a classmate or friend (preferably of the opposite sex) sitting together for 15 minutes each at two venues (e.g. a local coffee shop, the Eaton’s Centre lobby, the quad, Lake Devo, etc). Don’t speak to each other or compare notes (yet) but just observe what’s going on. Use all your senses and note small or large events that are happening (e.g. people talking, cars/bikes/skateboards going by) and write down what you think is going on (most people on their way to class or home or lunch, argument, girlfriend/boyfriend lovey-dovey chat, prof chatting with student, etc). How is the built environment helping or hindering or perhaps causing the event? When you’re done the 15 minutes, spend the next 10 minutes comparing notes about what went on. Did you notice the same events? If not why not do you think? If you did, did you describe them the same?

  17. THE MATERIAL(to be continued…)

  18. Now, what’s this course about and is it worth staying in it? This course weaves together… Environment but not the interpretation you probably have of it. Behaviour yours and others and why you do what you do. Perception how you and others view the world, and how these perceptions shape urban environments. Relativism how we can all witness the same event, but have differing views of it depending on the many cognitive filters through which we view those events. Scale how we judge size, area, distance in relative and absolute terms, and act upon those decisions.

  19. “Everything, in retrospect, is obvious.” Anonymous "We make a map of our experience patterns, an inner model of the outer world, and we use this to organise our lives” GyorgyKepes, 1956

  20. Layers of the City Rural Areas High Income Housing Industry Low income housing Commercial strip Hospital CBD Middle income housing Industry Commercial strip Middle income housing Low income housing Rural Areas Land Use

  21. Transportation

  22. Flows

  23. c c c c c c c c Activity Systems

  24. High PiPj dij2 Degree of interaction (I) Low X Place (i) Place (j) Distance (d) Distance Decay

  25. TORONTO MUNICIPAL CODE NOISE ARTICLE I Interpretation 591-1. Interpretation In this chapter, all the words which are of a technical nature or meanings specified for them in Publication NPC-101 – “Technic Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meani COMMISIONER – The Commissioner of Urban Development o designate. Formal Institutions (Rules)

  26. Informal Institutions (Convention)

  27. Economics: Bid Rent

  28. LOW MED HIGH Social Areas 1: Family Status

  29. LOW CBD LOW MED HIGH MED Social Areas 2: Socio-Economics

  30. Italian Jewish Chinese Indian Social Areas 3: Ethnicity

  31. Italian LOW Jewish Chinese CBD LOW LOW Indian MED MED HIGH MED HIGH Social Area Analysis of the City

  32. Territorial Boundaries

  33. Mental Maps

  34. Mental Images

  35. BAD OK LOVELY SO-SO GOOD REALLY NASTY Quality of Life

  36. QOL = F (G-B/t) Quality of Life 2

  37. Layers of the City TORONTO MUNICIPAL CODE NOISE ARTICLE I Interpretation 591-1. Interpretation In this chapter, all the words which are of a technical nature or meanings specified for them in Publication NPC-101 – “Technic Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meani COMMISIONER – The Commissioner of Urban Development o designate. Rural Areas High Income Housing Industry High BAD Low income housing c c c c Commercial strip OK LOVELY Hospital CBD Italian PiPj dij2 QOL = F (G-B/t Middle income housing Degree of interaction (I) Industry LOW Jewish Commercial strip SO-SO Middle income housing Peeling Them Away Chinese CBD LOW GOOD LOW c c c c Indian REALLY NASTY MED MED HIGH MED Low HIGH Rural Areas Place (i) Place (j) Distance (d) Formal Institutions (Rules) Social Areas 2: Socio-Economics Social Areas 1: Family Status Social Areas 3: Ethnicity Economics: Bid Rent Formal Institutions Activity Systems Quality of Life 2 Distance Decay Transportation Mental Images Quality of Life Mental Maps Land Use Flows

  38. A Guide to the Course 1. The Elements 2. Ways of Analyzing The Elements

  39. GOING TO BE EXPLORING PLACE Sense of Place Topophilia Topophobia Placelessness SPACE Location Distance Morphology Morphogenesis Perceptions PEOPLE Attitudes Preferences Values Abilities Needs Wants Perceptions Characteristics/attributes of and interaction between them leads to and creates… CONCEPT OF ENVIRONMENT Space that is created by, used by, or impinges on people, whether they are aware of it or not.

  40. AS A THING Physical Environment the “natural” world Built Environment the human built world Socio-Economic Environment the cultural world AS A SET OF CONDITIONS Phenomenal Environment Physical milieu in which behavior takes place Behavioural Environment Psychological milieu in which behavior takes place Abstraction Increases Definitions and use of these environments are influenced by…

  41. Contextual Environment Life Level Socio-economics Demographics Psychographics = level of health and political involvement Life Cycle Event Intensity: depends on life stage Child Adult Old Life Style Yuppie Student DINK WOOF et al Environments are shaped by and in turn influence the decision making process

  42. The Human Decision Making Process Positive feedback satisfaction Problem to be solved stress experience Information data certainty Evaluation uncertainty solved? Decision unsolved? Negative feedback Where the quality of such decision making depends on… Pred Matrix Quantity and quality of information Ability to use information

  43. A Guide to the Course Ways of Analyzing The Elements

  44. PROXEMICS – (DISTANCE) NORMAL DISTANCE---------------contrasted with--------------SOCIAL DISTANCE Linear mileage time cognitive intimate personal social public TERRITORY – (SPACE) STRUCTURE-----------------------------contrasted with--------------------------------USE (PORTEOUS) (SONNENFELD) personal home behavioral perceptual neighborhood public operational geographical THE PERCEPTION PROCESS FILTERS MINE REAL WORLD YOURS OURS EVENTS PERCEPTION CONSTRUCTS CONCEPTS … and how it influences and is influenced by …

  45. THE WAY WE VIEWENVIRONMENTS AS MENTAL MAPS Paths Nodes Edges Districts Landmarks AS ECONOMIC LANDSCAPES Surfaces Networks Hierarchies Nodes Movement Bid-rent AT DIFFERENT SCALES Personal Familial Community Regional National Global IN DIFFERENT CONTEXTS Life-cycle Life-style Life-level AS WE MAKE DECISIONS THE WAY WE USEENVIRONMENTS Where use is constrained by time and space to create activity bundles in the form of: Daily Life Paths Time Time Space Prisms Time Constraints coupling capability Time control SPACE

  46. THE BOTTOM LINES The hidden dimensions of the environment are as important as the visible ones. Behavior creates structure. Structure limits behavior.

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