Transcript Most important Geographers/Theories

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Most important Geographers/Theories
Be able to match the person to their theory/model
Be able to recognize/classify the theory/model
• Pop/Migration
• Boserup
Nature/Perspectives
• Malthus
Sauer
• Ravenstein
Ratzel
• Zelinsky
THEORIES/CONCEPTS >
environmental determinism
Possiblism,
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DEV/RESOURCES
Rostow
Wallerstein
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Theories/CONCEPTS >
Stages of eco growth,
world systems theory
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Gravity model-migration push & pull
factors,
population & food supply issues
rural to urban migration,
Ties b/t population growth &
economic growth,
Culture > Language diffusion
(military vs agriculture…
• M. Gimbutas
• C. Renfrew
• Norman Borlaug
• RIP, 2009 
• Green Revolution
• Esther Boserup
• Population and
economic growth
theory
• ERNST BURGESS
• CONCENTRIC ZONE
MODEL OF URBAN
GROWTH
• CHRISTALLER
• CENTRAL PLACE
THEORY OF
URBAN/SERVICES
DEVELOPMENT
• HARRIS & ULLMAN
• MULTIPLE NUCLEI
MODEL OF URBAN
GROWTH
• HOMER HOYT
• SECTOR MODEL OF
URBAN GROWTH
• Alfred Mahan
• Seapower theory of
political growth
• Thomas Malthus
• Theory of
overpopulation
• HALFORD
MAKINDER
• HEARTLAND
THEORY OF
POLITICAL POWER
• PETER MULLER
• SUBURBANIZATION
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TRANSPORTATION
ANALYSIS IN
URBAN REGIONS
• FRIEDRICH RATZEL
• ORGANIC THEORY
OF STATE GROWTH
• + ENVIRONMENTAL
DETERMINISM Natural surroundings
rule human action
• Ernst Ravenstein
• Gravity model of
migration + Laws of
Migration
• Collin Renfrew
• Language diffusion by
agricultural means
• Walter Rostow
• Stages of economic
growth/development
• Carl Sauer
• Possibilism
• Humans can alter
their environment
• Nicholas Spykman
• He who controls the
Rimland, controls the
world – political
systems theory
• Taylor and Lang
• World Cities Model
• VON THUNEN
• AGRICULTURAL
ACTIVITIES IN AN
ISOLATED STATE
SURROUND A
MARKET ZONE
THAT IS CIRCULAR
• Immanuel Wallerstein
• World Systems
Theory
• Alfred Weber
• Least Cost theory and
Industrial location
theory
Most important Geographers/Theories
Be able to match the person to their theory/model
Be able to recognize/classify the theory/model
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Political
Mahan
Spykman
Mackinder
Ratzel
Models/Theories/concepts
Sea power
Rimland theory
Heartland theory
Organic states
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AGRICULTURE
Von Thunen
Borlaug
Boserup
Christaller
Renfrew
Models/theories
Agri in the isolated state
Green Revolution
Centers of Agri and diffusion of culture/language
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INDUSTRIALIZATION/ECO DEVELOPMENT
Weber
Rostow
Wallerstein
Borlaug (as related to development)
Theories/CONCEPTS >
Stages of eco growth,
world systems theory
Least cost theory
Green Revolution – links to development
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CITIES AND URBAN LAND USE
Burgess
Harris/Ullman
Christaller
Hoyt
Muller
THEORIES/CONCEPTS
Concentric Zones
Multiple Nuclei
Central Place Theory
Sector Model
Suburbanization
• Anatolian Hearth
theory
• Correlation b/t source
areas of 3 agricultural
centers and 3 major
languages
• Central Place Theory
• Spatial distribution of
cities/service centers
is a hexagon w/CP in
the middle
• Concentric Zone
Model
• Burgess
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• Focus on CBD
importance b/c CBD
is at the center of the
model
• Core-Periphery model
• Places/regions can’t
develop equally,
somebody has to be
poor!
• Demographic
Transition Model
• Birth and mortality
rates are tied to
stages of
development
• Dependency Theory
• Poor country’s
economy is tied to a
rich country, usually
it’s former colonizer
• Gravity model of
migration
• Relationship b/t
volume of migration
and distance from
source & destination
is inverse
• Heartland Theory
Mackinder's Heartland
(also known as the
Pivot Area) is the core
area of Eurasia, and
the World-Island is all
of Eurasia (both
Europe and Asia).
• He who controls
Europe, controls the
world
‘Who rules East Europe
commands the Heartland
Who rules the Heartland
commands the World-Island
Who rules the World-Island
commands the world’
• Least Cost/Location
Theory
• Minimizing
transportation costs
• Migration Theory
• Push-Pull Forces
impact choices
• Multiple Nuclei model
• CBD is not as
important, urban
areas develop several
CBDs
• Sector model
• Based on urban
transportation routes
and bid rent prices
• World Systems
Theory
• Development is
applicable across
scales – local to
regional to global