Examines the evolution of the world economy as well as the major institutions that have supported it, and interprets the new geography of investment, production and consumption that accompanies it.
[/show_field_with_limit]This course provides an overview of consumer shopping behaviour, the structure and process of retail location, and various social and economic issues associated with the contemporary retail economy. The geographical perspective is emphasized.
Prerequisites: 54 credits passed, including EU/GEOG 1000 6.00 or written permission of the course director.
[/show_field_with_limit]The course examines the societal and geographical implications of new technologies, including digitalization, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things. Students address the economic and financial geographies of technological innovation and analyze techno-economic trends emerging from: the growth of personal data; the deployment of machine learning and AI; and the expansion of surveillance / platform capitalism. Format: blended/online (if blended, then students should expect to spend 2 hours online and 1 hour in class)
[/show_field_with_limit]Explores various Traditional Aboriginal processes of "coming to know" the environment. Students will be guided through an examination of these Aboriginal relationships, as they existed traditionally, through times of critical change, and into the present. The underlying theme of this course will focus on individual, regional, and national ways of "being and becoming" environmentally responsible moving outwards towards a Global responsibility. Prerequisite: Third-year or fourth- year standing or by permission of the instructor.
[/show_field_with_limit]An examination of the structure and function of vegetation and soil systems. The course focuses on such topics as the adjustment of ecosystems to human modification and the role of biogeography in conservation and resource management. Prerequisites: 54 credits successfully completed, including one of AP/GEOG 1400 6.00 or SC/GEOG 1400 6.00 or ES/ENVS 2420 3.00 or SC/BIOL 2050 4.00.
[/show_field_with_limit]This course deals with the twin social issues of housing and homelessness. It explores the political economy of housing (financialization, gentrification and the affordability crisis that plagues most cities). The course presents different models of housing provision through state policy, market mechanisms and auto-construction. Causes of homelessness and services assisting the unhoused will be examined.
[/show_field_with_limit]Regional governance includes the government and civic organization of all aspects of life in an (urban) region. This course introduces concepts of the region, regionalism, regional government, and regional economic development. While the course has an international perspective, there will be a strong focus on historical and current regional governance in the Toronto urban region. Particular attention will be paid to issues related to environmental governance, bioregional issues and watershed planning and management. This course builds on EU/ENVS 2200 3.00 which is recommended. Prerequisite: Third-year or fourth- year standing or by permission of the instructor.
[/show_field_with_limit]This methods and skills-based course serves as a systematic introduction of common ways of research, learning and practice in cities, regions and planning. As a bridge between the substantive foundations courses of the second year and the specialized fourth year courses, Doing Urban Research is designed to introduce the method, methods and methodologies of urban research and practice.
This course includes a compulsory four-day field trip to either Montreal or a three-day field trip to Buffalo.
[/show_field_with_limit]This course will survey contemporary social movements addressing environmental questions in the region of Latin America and the Caribbean. Examining how movements frame particular environments as requiring defending, responsibilities for their defense, and strategies for defending them, we will develop a critical perspective on the region's role in shaping what questions count as environmental globally
[/show_field_with_limit]Placemaking is an inherently political process that is never complete. Every day and across time, places are actively made and remade by people through cultural, discursive, and material practices of ingenuity, transformation, maintenance. Placemaking also occurs in more formalized ways through urban policy and planning at different spatial scales from the neighbourhood, to the district, to the municipality.
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