Geographic Inquiry and Skill Development
By the end of the course the student will:
use the geographic inquiry process and the concepts of geographic thinking when investigating issues affecting ecumenes
- Encyclopedia Of Geography Terms, Themes, And Concepts (Book)
- Geo-data The World Geographical Encyclopedia (Book)
- McGraw Hill’s Atlas Of World Events The Key Political, Economic, Demographic, And Environmental Issues That Are Shaping The World Today (Book)
- What Is The Geographic Approach? (Website)
- Independent Investigation – Royal Geographical Society (Website)
- I Can Think Like a Geographer! Spatial Significance (Website)
- StatsCan Census Geography (Website)
apply in everyday contexts skills, including spatial skills, developed through geographical investigation, and identify some careers in which a background in geography might be an asset
- Careers by Major – Geography, Geomatics and Environment (Website)
- Ontario Skills Passport (OSP) (Website)
- What Can You Do With A Geography Degree? (Website)
Spatial Organization of Ecumenes
By the end of the course the student will:
assess the liveability of ecumenes in Canada and other parts of the world, and analyse factors that influence liveability
- Neighbourhood Designing a Liveable Community (Book)
- Palaces For The People How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, And The Decline Of Civic Life (Book)
- Geography of British Columbia People and Landscapes in Transition (Book)
- The Shaping Of Us (Hoopla eBook)
describe interrelationships between the environmental, social, economic, and political processes that shape ecumenes
- Chicago Made (Book)
- Public Housing Myths( Hoopla eBook)
describe the spatial distribution of land use in human settlements according to selected theories
- Why Cities Look the Way They Do (Book)
- Land Use Planning – Government of Ontario (Website)
- Models of Urban Structure (Website)
Sustainability and Stewardship
analyse impacts of human activity and human settlements on the environment, and assess the effectiveness of solutions to these impacts in selected ecumenes
- Green Equilibrium The Vital Balance Of Humans & Nature (Book)
- Smart Growth From Sprawl to Sustainability (Book)
- Stormwater Management For Sustainable Urban Environments (Book)
assess ways in which stewardship practices can contribute to the sustainability of human settlements
- Cities People Planet Liveable Cities for a Sustainable World (Book)
- Essex-Windsor Solid Waste Management System Planning (Book)
- The Permaculture City (Book)
- Waste management (Website)
describe ways in which human societies modify their local environments in order to meet economic, social, political, and other needs, and assess the effects of these modifications on sustainability
- Why Cities Look the Way They Do (Book)
- Design for Flooding Architecture, Landscape, and Urban Design for Resilience to Flooding and Climate Change (Book)
- Global Mountain Regions (Hoopla eBook)
Systems: Interdependence of Ecumenes
analyse impacts of public opinion and policy on interactions within and between ecumenes
- Building For The Past Sandwich South Secondary Plan Amendment & Hospital Zoning (Book)
- Downtown Windsor Enhancement Strategy and Community Improvement Plan (Book)
- Indigenous Empowerment Through Co-management: Land Claims, Boards, Wildlife Management, and Environmental Regulation (Book)
- The Globalization of Inequality (Book)
- Differing paths: Tecumseh residents remain split over plan to extend the Ganatchio Trail (Online Article)
analyse impacts of population change and migration on the social characteristics and built environment of cities
- Twenty-first-century Immigration to North America (Book)
- The Changing Canadian Population (Book)
- Shelter : Homelessness in Our Community (Book)
- Urbanization (Website)
analyse the effects of international assistance and formal and informal international economic activity on quality of life in developed and developing countries
- The Rise And Fall Of American Growth The U.S. Standard Of Living Since The Civil War (Book)
- The Big Truck That Went by How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster (Book)
- Wages Of Crime Black Markets, Illegal Finance, And The Underworld Economy (Book)
- The Exploited Child (Book)
- Understanding food assistance (Website)
- Humanitarian Assistance in Disaster Situations (Website)
Changing Ecumenes
analyse interrelationships between urban environments and quality of life
- Urban Canada (Book)
- Canadian Cities in Transition (Book)
- Greening The Black Urban Regime: The Culture And Commerce Of Sustainability In Detroit (Book)
- Affordability and Choice Today (ACT) Demonstration Project Case Study ; Reusing Industrial Sites for Residential Development : a Municipal Planning Review (Book)
- Stormwater Management For Sustainable Urban Environments (Book)
- Palaces for the People (Book)
- Wealth, Poverty and Politics An International Perspective (Book)
- Global Poverty, Democracy And North-South Change (Book)
- City a Guidebook for the Urban Age (Book)
- Factfulness Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Book)
assess from a geographic perspective the effectiveness of solutions to issues affecting the built environment
- Dream City Creation, Destruction, and Reinvention in Downtown Detroit (Book)
- 10 ways cities are tackling the global affordable housing crisis (Website)
- Supervised Injection Services Community Consultations Report (Website)
- The Barcelona Olympics: Reconfiguring Urban Geography (Website)
- Maximizing Olympic Impacts by Building Up Legacies (Online Article)
- Pre-Olympic and Post-Olympic Barcelona, a ‘Model’ for Urban Regeneration Today? (Online Article)