GEOG 1101 Lecture 13 Outline of Last Lecture I Major Religions II Gender Sexuality and Space III Citizenship IV Landscape Current Lecture I Landscapes II Making Places III Territoriality IV Indicators of Economic Development V Composition of Economic sectors Landscapes Symbolic Landscapes overly emphasize values such as power or sovereignty Reflect ideas of power of wealth Ordinary Landscapes Are instruments of social and cultural power that naturalize politicaleconomic structures as if they were simply given and inevitable It is taken for granted lived in daily landscape and has less symbolic power Vulgaria competitive consumption moral minimalism and disengagement from notions of social justice and civil society Landscapes don t produce social relations but reflect values form society New Urbanism urban design movement to address issues of traffic congestion and sprawl pedestrian mast transit energy efficiency mixed use Near Downtown Atlanta there are many immigrants from northern Africa and there is a masjid Post modernity A reaction to modernity A very individualized consumption oriented and a very creative way of looking at the world Really pushes boundaries of linear way of thinking and replace it with something more interesting Making Places Place making is a dynamic human function It is an act of liberation of staking claim and of beautification it is true human empowerment Place is space with meaning It is socially constructed These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute People draw on images histories and stereotypes to develop distinctive idea of a place People reinforce sense of place by contrasting themselves with people in places very different from them Given different meanings by different people for different purposes Topophilia Love of place All emotional connections between physical environments and human beings Territoriality It is the process of claiming territory Is the political aspect Functions of territoriality 1 regulation of social interaction ex marriage only allowed within a tribe 2 regulation of people and resources Concerned within the territory 3 Provision of focus and symbol of group identity Provides a place based identity Indicators of Economic Development GNP I gross national product Income Value of income from abroad Core countries have highest GNP GDP gross domestic product Total of all goods services produced in one year in one country Per capita GDP proportional to population HDI Human development Index Measures quality of life with education income and longevity Purchasing Power parity amount of a basket of a sic goods which can be bought in a given country with the money it produces in US dollars Commodity concentration measures reliance on one particular commodity Higher commodity concentration leads to lower economic development Debt service When countries find themselves in debt they borrow from the World Bank and if they don t succeed then they have debt It measures the percentage of income which is spent in repaying debts It is very bad if you pay most of income for repaying debts Resources and Development include energy resources cultivatable land and industrial resources Composition of economic sectors Primary agriculture natural resource extraction Secondary industry manufacturing 1st step of industrialization Tertiary Sale and exchange of goods and services Quaternary handling processing of information