Geography 106The Geography of Everyday Life

Lower Level Liberal Study

“It’s not true

that dogs see

only in black and

white.

You are your own dog.

Dogs see

what they want to

see.”

COURSE ADMINISTRATION

What, Who, Where, When.Expectations.

Geography 106The Geographies of Everyday Life

Dr. Philip CoppackJorgenson 609

pcoppack@geography.ryerson.ca

www.geography.ryerson.ca/coppack/geo106

Course Outline is on the course websiteTHIS IS NOT A BRIGHTSPACE SITE!

DO NOT ASK ME THIS AGAIN.

WHAT, WHO, WHERE

What the website looks like…

Useful Text if you need one:Carlson E. and Coppack P.M. (2010) Geographies of Everyday

Life. Toronto: McGraw Hill.

This was developed from original lecture notes for the course. It is not required, nor will you likely find them in the

bookstore. Get a second hand copy if you need a text.

MON TUES WED THURS FRI9-10 Section

021 Lecture

TRS 3176

GEO 161

10-11 LECTURE Section 011

Lecture DSQ 2311-12 Sec 011

Self Study12-1 OFFICE1-2 OFFICE

2-3 Sec 021Self Study GEO161

3-4 LABS

WHEN

www.geography.ryerson.ca/coppack/geo106

You’re on your own

here!

WHEN

F is ‘Forever’ Friday, November 14th.Final date to withdraw from an undergraduate program (OR

COURSE) for the Fall 2015 term in good Academic Standing (no refund of Fall 2015 fees).

www.geography.ryerson.ca/coppack/geo106

EvaluationCourse Component Weight

Mid Term (multiple choice questions) 30%Essay (approx. 1200-1500 words) 40%Final Exam (multiple choice and short essay) 30%

Evaluation

Mid term is 50 multiple choice questions.Essay is 1,200 words. Details are in the course outline.

Final exam is 40 multiple choice questions and a short essay.

All dates for all assessments are in the course outline.

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A Few Words About Grades

All ‘Fs’ were missing one or more grade components.

Some had forgotten to drop the course.

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A Few More Words About ExpectationsThis is university – expectations are high.

University grades are, on average, about a full letter below what you could expect in high school, because:

• Only the best make it here.• Your course loads are higher.• The material is more difficult.• Your professors expect more.

http://www.macleans.ca/education/uniandcollege/your-grades-will-drop/

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/education/high-school-grade-inflation-balloon-ready-to-pop/article10452197/

DO NOT EXPECT YOUR LIBERAL STUDIES COURSES TO BE A BREAK FROM ‘REAL’ COURSES.

THIS IS AS REAL AS IT GETS.

This course should be treated like any of your courses.Take it seriously.

To ‘C’ Or Not To ‘C’The ABCs of university also differ from those of your high

schools.An ‘A’ in university means outstanding.

It does not mean good.It means that you have excelled far beyond what would be

expected for your level in content, depth, and presentation.

A ‘B’ in university means good.It does not mean satisfactory.

It means that you have done what you were asked to do and you have done it well.

A ‘C’ in university means satisfactory.It does not mean good.

It means that you have done more or less what you were asked to do and no more.

WEEK WEEK OF TOPIC1 (Labour Day)

Sept 7-12ESSAY TOPICS

AVAILABLE

1. Introduction to the Course - course mechanics- course overview: what you can expect

2 Sept 14-18 2. Spatial Concepts and Spatial Dynamics- geographic concepts; distance, direction, location, place, scale- space, time, and space-time- proxemics

3 Sep 21-25 3. Environment and Perception- defining environments - perception and cognitive filtering- decision making- the ordering of experience

LECTURE SCHEDULE

4 Sept 28-Oct 2

4. Mental Maps and Mental Images - definitions and nature- Lynch's model: nodes, landmarks, districts, paths, edges- development sequence of mental maps- designative and appraisive perceptions

5 Oct 5-9

5. Place and Placelessness- sense of place and placelessness- topophilia and topophobia, safety of place- soundscapes and smellscapes- amenity environments, vernacular landscapes, marketing Places

6 Oct 12-16 R E A D I N G W E E K 7 Oct 19-23 MID TERM TEST WORTH 30%, NO MAKE-UPS

DO NOT MISS.MULTIPLE CHOICE – SCANTRON ANSWER SHEETS – 1.5 HOURS.

TO BE DONE IN THE TWO HOUR LECTURE TIMELECTURES 1 – 6 INCLUSIVE

8 Oct 26-30 6. Territory and Territoriality - personalization and defence- home, neighbourhood- examples of territoriality

9 Nov 2-6

7. Time, Space, and Time-Space- the organisation of time- time-space totality, prisms, paths, convergence and distantiation- constraints - cognitive, capability, coupling, control (authority)

10 Nov 9-13ESSAY DUE

IN YOUR SECTION’S LECTURE.

8. Spatial Interaction- definitions and roles- activity space and journey to work- residential search behaviour - distance decay and gravity models in retailing (marketing geography)

11 Nov 16-20

Friday, November

20

10. Urbanization- defining urban- urban growth and urbanization- urbanization processes: economic, demographic and socialFinal date to withdraw from an undergraduate program for the

Fall 2015 term in good Academic Standing (no refund of Fall 2015 fees).

12 Nov 23-27 11. Form and Structure in the City- bid rent theory- the role of transportation technology in city form- models of internal structure: concentric ring, sector, multiple nuclei12. Design for Human Activities - adaptive and integrative environments- neighbourhood design

13 Nov 30-Dec 4

12. Groups of People in Cities- urban ecology, social area analysis, factorial ecology- spatial patterns of social dimensions13. Quality of Life- definitions- indicators and patternsReview

TUESDAY AND THURSDAY ONE HOUR CLASSES

WE WILL NOT BE HAVING CLASSES TUESDAY FOR SECTION 021 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.

GEOGRAPHY 106 – SELF STUDY SCHEDULE FOR FALL 2014Self –study takes place in the one hour lecture slots for your section.

This schedule outlines what you will be doing on your own or in class during the one hour slots each week this semester.

WEEK #

WEEK OF TOPIC OF THE WEEK AND WHAT YOU ARE TO DO

ARE YOU IN CLASS?

1 Sept 7 TOPIC: Introduction to the Course DO: Introduction lecture

YES

2 Sept 14 TOPIC: Spatial Concepts and Spatial DynamicsDO: Self-study Exercise #1 (see list below)

NO

3 Sept 21 TOPIC: Environment and PerceptionDO: Self-study Exercise #2 (see list below)

NO

4 Sept 28 TOPIC: Mental Maps and Mental ImagesDO: Self-study exercise #3 (see list below)

NO

5 Oct 5 TOPIC: Place and PlacelessnessDO: Self-study exercise #4 (see list below)

NO

6 Oct 12 R E A D I N G W E E K O C T O B E R NO7 Oct 19 STUDY FOR MID TERM TEST NO8 Oct 26 Territory and Territoriality: DO: Self Study Exercise #5 NO

Self Study Exercises

8 Nov 2 TOPIC: Time, Space, and Time-SpaceDO: Self-study exercise #6 (see list below)

NO

9 Nov 9 TOPIC: Spatial InteractionDO: Watch six short YouTube videos:1: U.S. Air Traffic flows http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9r3H4iHFZk&feature=relmfu2: U.K. Air Traffic ‘Highways’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEZcBeE33wc3. The U.K. National Electricity Gridhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTM2Ck6XWHg&feature=related4. English Channel Shipping:http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=z50XoqzOBLQ&feature=endscreen5: Mapping epidemicshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSZwht6xBBo&feature=relmfu6. Stuxnethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scNkLWV7jSw

NO

10 Nov 16 TOPIC: UrbanizationDO: Self-study exercise #7 (see list below)

NO

11 Nov 23 TOPIC: Form and Structure of the CityDO: Watch William Whyte’s movie The Social Life of Small Urban Places on Vimeo:http://vimeo.com/6821934

NO

12 Nov 30 DO: Play with Toronto’s Well Being:http://map.toronto.ca/wellbeing/http://creativeclassstruggle.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/handout.pdf

NO

Self Study Exercises

COURSE PROJECT

ESSAY ASSIGNMENT:GEOGRAPHICAL INVESTIGATION OF AN ASPECT OF EVERYDAY

LIFEDUE DATE:

IN YOUR SECTION’S LECTURE DURING THE WEEK INDICATED ON THE COURSE OUTLINE.

1. Mental Maps of Downtown Toronto.2. Neighbourhoods of Toronto.3. Time-Space Analysis.

Late Penalty for the Essay:The essay should be handed in directly to the instructor in hard copy at the beginning of class on the day specified on the essay assignment outline. There is a late penalty of 2%

per calendar day which will be enforced once the lecture begins.

THE MATERIAL

This course weaves together…

Environmentbut not the interpretation you probably have of it.Behaviour yours and others and why you do what you do.Perceptionhow you and others view the world, and how these perceptions shape urban environments.Relativismhow 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.Scalehow we judge size, area, distance in relative and absolute terms, and act upon those decisions.

Now, what’s this course about and is it worth staying in it?

"We make a map of our experience patterns, an inner model of the outer world, and we use this

to organise our lives”Gyorgy Kepes, 1956

“Everything, in retrospect, is obvious.”Anonymous

Layers of the City

CBDCommercial strip

Low income housingIndustry

Commercial strip

High Income Housing

Middle incomehousing

Hospital

IndustryMiddle incomehousing

Rural Areas

Rural Areas

Land Use

Low income housing

Transportation

Layers of the City

Flows

Layers of the City

Activity Systems

c

c

c

cc

c c

c

Layers of the City

Distance Decay

PiPj dij2

Degree of interaction

(I)

Distance(d)

High

Low

Place(i)

Place(j)

X

Layers of the City

TORONTO MUNICIPAL CODENOISE

ARTICLE IInterpretation

591-1. InterpretationIn this chapter, all the words which are of a technical nature ormeanings 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 odesignate.

Formal Institutions (Rules)

Layers of the City

Informal Institutions (Convention)

Layers of the City

Economics: Bid Rent

Layers of the City

Social Areas 1: Family Status

HIGHMED

LOW

Layers of the City

Social Areas 2: Socio-Economics

LOW

MED HIGH

LOW

MED

CBD

Layers of the City

Social Areas 3: Ethnicity

Jewish

Italian

Chin

ese

Indian

Layers of the City

Social Area Analysis of the City

HIGHMED

LOW

LOW

MED HIGH

LOW

MED

CBDJewish

Italian

Chin

ese

Indian

Layers of the City

Territorial Boundaries

Layers of the City

Mental Maps

Layers of the City

Mental Images

Layers of the City

Quality of Life

BAD

REALLY NASTYGOOD

OK

SO-SOLOVELY

Layers of the City

Quality of Life 2

QOL = F (G-B/t)

Layers of the City

Layers of the City

CBDCommercial strip

Low income housingIndustry

Commercial strip

High Income Housing

Middle incomehousing

Hospital

IndustryMiddle incomehousing

Rural Areas

Rural Areas

Land UseTransportationFlowsActivity Systems

c

c

c

cc

c c

c

Distance Decay

PiPj dij2

Degree of interaction

(I)

Distance(d)

High

Low

Place(i)

Place(j)

Formal Institutions

TORONTO MUNICIPAL CODENOISE

ARTICLE IInterpretation

591-1. InterpretationIn this chapter, all the words which are of a technical nature ormeanings 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 odesignate.

Formal Institutions (Rules)Economics: Bid RentSocial Areas 1: Family Status

HIGHMED

LOW

Social Areas 2: Socio-Economics

LOW

MED HIGH

LOW

MED

CBD

Social Areas 3: Ethnicity

Jewish

ItalianCh

ines

e

Indian

Mental MapsMental ImagesQuality of Life

BAD

REALLY NASTYGOOD

OK LOVELY

SO-SO

Quality of Life 2

QOL = F (G-B/tPeeling Them Away

THE HIDDEN ENVIRONMENT“The real voyage of discovery lies

not in seeking new landscapes but in seeing old ones with new eyes.”

Proust (or close enough)

Because I know that time is always timeAnd place is always and only placeAnd what is actual is actual only for one timeAnd only for one place.

T.S. Eliot, Ash Wednesday, (1930)

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T.S.Eliot, Little Gidding (1942)

SO…Geography 106

The Geographies of Everyday Lifewww.geography.ryerson.ca/coppack/geo106

This is the course.

Dr. Philip CoppackJorgenson 608

pcoppack@geography.ryerson.ca

This is me.

If you don’t think you will like either, then now’s the time to find another liberal arts course.

Otherwise, welcome.Let’s explore why the obvious isn’t.