Topic 1

  1. Answers to questions

  • political shapes factors forces shaping our cities

  • crops disciplinary approach

  • quantitative

  • Behavioural

  • Structuralist

  • Post structuralist

  • Project small scale studies

  • Quantative main domain approach in social sciences

  • Positivist researchers

  • Need to know why of why

  • Theories hypothesis facts

  • Research proposal three questions of reaserch questions



  1. Behavioural approach

  • first use in psychology that what it stated was in psychology

  • Look at people behaviour

  • Contacts impose on the behaviour by organizations as society as a whole

  • Urban gatekeepers

  • block busting technology in USA


  1. The city vs socio spatial dialect

  • You shape social geography of city shape by those who live around you

  • segregation neighbourhoods based on race

  • Social distance don’t like someone based on race socio economic status etc can cause riots nit physical distance between people


  1. Urban world

  • depopulating rural areas

  • Definition of urban areas vary from country to country

  • Ex turning

  • City of Toronto is urban

  • Census metropolitan area of Toronto have rural areas but still pars consider urban part of Toronto

  • Greater area of Toronto

  • city is a political entity makes governments

  • City has multiple municipalities with shared identity

  • Maybe had four or five cities that were cities but became almagamated to save money

  • Urbanization increase 18th century growth rural to urban areas

  • Expanded in suburbs

  • We don’t conttrol urban sprawl anymore