Chapter 1: The Study of Urban Geography

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Chapter 1 The Study of Urban Geography
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The Study of Urban Geography

• Concerned with Local Variability in a General
  Context
• Want to know the distinctiveness of individual
  places and regularities within and between
  cities

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• How did these Distinctive identities evolve?
• Are there significant patterns/regularies in the
  spatial arrangement of towns and cities across a
  country or region in the world?
• Are there regularities in the spatial
  organization of land use within cities or
  neighborhoods, for example?
• Why and how do people choose to live where they
  live?
• Who can manipulate the spatial organization of a
  city?

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• Space not just a medium, it is factor that
  influences patterns of urban development
• Territoriality Important to geography since it
  shapes individual and group behavior that create
  distinct spatial settings
• Distance affects the behavior of both producers
  and consumers/influences patterns of social and
  ecnomic interaction
• Place The distinctiveness of a particular
  metropolitan area

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Approaches to Urban Geography

• 1900-1950s The Regional Cultural Tradition
• 1950s-1960s Analytical Urban Geography or Spatial
  Analysis Approach
• 1970s-Behavioral Urban Studies
• 1970s Humanistic Approach
• 1970s-1980s Structuralist Approach
• 1970s-1980s Feminist Approach
• Structure-Agency Approach

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Approaches to Urban Geography

• 1900 Poststructural and Postmodern Urbanism (came
  out of architecture and French Deconstructionist
  School.)
• 1995-Current Transnational Urbanism

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