Urban Geography

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Urban Geography

• Sarah Witham Bednarz
• Texas AM University
• http//geog.tamu.edu/sarah/humangeog/humangeog.htm
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Disclaimers

• I am a professor
• I do not know anything about the test
• Urban geography is NOT a major part of my course
  in Human Geography

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Approach

• Review key concepts and understandings
• Discuss three articles and how to use them with
  students
• Explore field work students can use to learn
  urban geography in context

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Definitions of urbanism

• Perceptions of cities
• Positive?
• Negative?
• Cities as points in space
• Cities as places with internal structures

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Origin and Evolution of Cities

• Understanding why some settlements grow into
  cities and others disappear
• Site
• Situation

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Models of Urban Land Use

• Developed Cities
• Third World Cities
• Cities in the Future

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Models in Urban Geography

• Burgesss Concentric Zone Model
• Hoyts Sector Model
• Multiple Nuclei Model
• Vances Urban Realms Model
• Whites Model

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Built Environment Social Space

• Humanistic vs Political Economy Perspectives
• Political Organization
• Urban managerialism and actors in the production
  of the built environment
• Who are the players?
• Post Modern Perspectives

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Urban Growth and Migration

• Factors of Change
• Economic forces
• Technology
• Demography
• Politics
• Society
• Culture
• Environment
• Globalization

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Processes of Urban Change
GLOBALIZATION
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Mega Cities

• Giant cities
• Where and why there?
• Trends in growth
• Functions

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First World vs Third World

• Compare

• Contrast
• Latin America
• South Asia
• Middle East
• North Africa
• Southeast Asia
• Sub Saharan Africa

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Urban Land Use Field Work

• Land Use Street frontage survey
• Urban Transportation Public transport survey
• Analyzing the Local Mall
• Traffic Flow Survey
• Urban Sleuthing Change over time