Transcript Urban Geography

Urban Geography
Sarah Witham Bednarz
Texas A&M University
http://geog.tamu.edu/sarah/humangeog/humangeog.html
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…
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
Definitions of urbanism…
Perceptions of cities
Positive?
Negative?
Cities as points in space
Cities as places with internal
structures
Origin and Evolution of Cities
Understanding why some settlements
grow into cities and others
disappear…
Site
Situation
Models of Urban Land Use
Developed Cities
Third World Cities
Cities in the Future
Models in Urban Geography
Burgess’s Concentric Zone Model
Hoyt’s Sector Model
Multiple Nuclei Model
Vance’s Urban Realms Model
White’s Model
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
Urban Growth and Migration
Factors of Change
Economic forces
Technology
Demography
Politics
Society
Culture
Environment
Globalization
Processes of Urban Change
Triggers
Demographic &
Social Change
Processes
Locally &
historically
contingent
factors
Reurbanization
Environmental
Change
Exurbanization
Technological
Change
Suburbanization
Economic Change
Urbanization
Cultural Change
Exo-urbanization
Political Change
Peripheral
urbanization
Mega Cities
Giant cities
Where and why there?
Trends in growth
Functions
First World vs Third World
Compare
Contrast
Latin America
South Asia
Middle East
North Africa
Southeast Asia
Sub Saharan Africa
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