GEO793 MIDTERM EXAM STUDY GUIDE
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1. Fillion / Bunting 3 Themes that a city face. - ANSWER ✔ 1)Sustainability
2)Unevenness
3)Uncertainty
2. Sustainability. - ANSWER ✔ Environmental Perspective
-Adjust to weather (Staying indoors)
-Safety of water supply
-Lost of rural/natural areas
3. Unevenness. - ANSWER ✔ Within the City
-large/small
-rich + /poor + /middle
-population density
-employment/unemployment
4. Uncertainty. - ANSWER ✔ -Globalization
-Economic crisis by international feud
-Relies on other countries
-Suffer if other countries fall
-No control
,5. 6 Properties to Understand the City. - ANSWER ✔ 1)Production
2)Reproduction
3)Proximity
4)Capitalization
5)Places
6)Governance
6. Expert Witness - ANSWER ✔ Planners
7. Ordinary Witness - ANSWER ✔ Residents/Owners
8. 3 Comparisons - ANSWER ✔ 1)Past
2)Present
3)Future
9. Oak Ridges Moraine Basin - ANSWER ✔ 13,000 years ago
- Fluvial feature
- Ice began to retreat as water melted and went into the basin
- Formed by water between 2 ice glaciers
- Naturally filters water (barrel); However, can be easily contaminated
- Over time as it melted and the lake shrunk, Toronto was left with a
new shoreline
- Casa Loma and Scarborough bluffs are examples of where the old
shoreline was
- The shoreline provided a strategic location
10.Shoreline of Glacial Lake Iroquois - ANSWER ✔ - Aout 2km from the
shore
- Runs west-east parallel to Davenport Road, south of St. Clair Avenue
West
- Casa Loma today is built on top of the Iroquois Shoreline
, - Further east, the Scarborough Bluffs also formed part of the shoreline
of the ancient lake
11.Drumlins - ANSWER ✔ Glacial formations that are prominent in the city
Elongated teardrop-shaped hills of well sorted and stratified sand and gravel
Typically occur behind well defined morraine formations
The elongated end points in the direction of the ice flow
Formed by the streamlined movement of glacial ice sheets across rock debris
Can be up to 2km long
Eg: Lawerence Hill, Mount Pleasant is also built in the middle of a drumlin
12.First cities in North America to create a metropolitan - ANSWER ✔ - 1953
Toronto was one of the first cities in North America to create a metropolitan
area
- Suburban communities joined Toronto:
- Leaside
- Mimico
- New Toronto
- Weston
- Long Branch
- East York
- Etobicoke
- North York
- Scarborough
- York
- This amalgamation created the Toronto Metropolitan area
- 1967: Forest Hill and Swansea amalgamate with Toronto
- They retained their independence but created regional services: police,
fire, road
, construction, water supply, public housing
13.1953 Amalgamation - ANSWER ✔ - this is all one big municipality
14.Zoning bylaws - ANSWER ✔ - Zoning bylaws prevented commercial
properties within residential area with missing corner stores
- local diner
- butcher
- coffee shop
- Most families had 1 car and very
often women did not drive
Staples like milk and bread were
delivered to the house
- there was a special door for them too
15.First Planned suburb of Toronto - ANSWER ✔ - Don Mills 1952 - 1965
16.Don Mills 1952 - 1965 - ANSWER ✔ - Funded by E.P Taylor , planned by
Macklin Hancock.
- A contemporary garden city importance of importance of
neighbourhood separation of land uses proliferation of green spaces
irregular street patterns large lot size
modernist architecture
17.North Toronto - ANSWER ✔ - North Toronto developed 1940's
- All utilities are on the street
2026/2027 ACCURATE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWER ||
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<RECENT VERSION>
1. Fillion / Bunting 3 Themes that a city face. - ANSWER ✔ 1)Sustainability
2)Unevenness
3)Uncertainty
2. Sustainability. - ANSWER ✔ Environmental Perspective
-Adjust to weather (Staying indoors)
-Safety of water supply
-Lost of rural/natural areas
3. Unevenness. - ANSWER ✔ Within the City
-large/small
-rich + /poor + /middle
-population density
-employment/unemployment
4. Uncertainty. - ANSWER ✔ -Globalization
-Economic crisis by international feud
-Relies on other countries
-Suffer if other countries fall
-No control
,5. 6 Properties to Understand the City. - ANSWER ✔ 1)Production
2)Reproduction
3)Proximity
4)Capitalization
5)Places
6)Governance
6. Expert Witness - ANSWER ✔ Planners
7. Ordinary Witness - ANSWER ✔ Residents/Owners
8. 3 Comparisons - ANSWER ✔ 1)Past
2)Present
3)Future
9. Oak Ridges Moraine Basin - ANSWER ✔ 13,000 years ago
- Fluvial feature
- Ice began to retreat as water melted and went into the basin
- Formed by water between 2 ice glaciers
- Naturally filters water (barrel); However, can be easily contaminated
- Over time as it melted and the lake shrunk, Toronto was left with a
new shoreline
- Casa Loma and Scarborough bluffs are examples of where the old
shoreline was
- The shoreline provided a strategic location
10.Shoreline of Glacial Lake Iroquois - ANSWER ✔ - Aout 2km from the
shore
- Runs west-east parallel to Davenport Road, south of St. Clair Avenue
West
- Casa Loma today is built on top of the Iroquois Shoreline
, - Further east, the Scarborough Bluffs also formed part of the shoreline
of the ancient lake
11.Drumlins - ANSWER ✔ Glacial formations that are prominent in the city
Elongated teardrop-shaped hills of well sorted and stratified sand and gravel
Typically occur behind well defined morraine formations
The elongated end points in the direction of the ice flow
Formed by the streamlined movement of glacial ice sheets across rock debris
Can be up to 2km long
Eg: Lawerence Hill, Mount Pleasant is also built in the middle of a drumlin
12.First cities in North America to create a metropolitan - ANSWER ✔ - 1953
Toronto was one of the first cities in North America to create a metropolitan
area
- Suburban communities joined Toronto:
- Leaside
- Mimico
- New Toronto
- Weston
- Long Branch
- East York
- Etobicoke
- North York
- Scarborough
- York
- This amalgamation created the Toronto Metropolitan area
- 1967: Forest Hill and Swansea amalgamate with Toronto
- They retained their independence but created regional services: police,
fire, road
, construction, water supply, public housing
13.1953 Amalgamation - ANSWER ✔ - this is all one big municipality
14.Zoning bylaws - ANSWER ✔ - Zoning bylaws prevented commercial
properties within residential area with missing corner stores
- local diner
- butcher
- coffee shop
- Most families had 1 car and very
often women did not drive
Staples like milk and bread were
delivered to the house
- there was a special door for them too
15.First Planned suburb of Toronto - ANSWER ✔ - Don Mills 1952 - 1965
16.Don Mills 1952 - 1965 - ANSWER ✔ - Funded by E.P Taylor , planned by
Macklin Hancock.
- A contemporary garden city importance of importance of
neighbourhood separation of land uses proliferation of green spaces
irregular street patterns large lot size
modernist architecture
17.North Toronto - ANSWER ✔ - North Toronto developed 1940's
- All utilities are on the street
