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This publication contains nine articles intended to enhance teachers' understanding of urban geography. The articles are reprinted from issues of the 1969 volume of the Journal of Geography. Urban studies has been one of the most rapidly developing fields of geography during the post World War II generation. There has been extensive research and…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Government Role, Growth Patterns, Higher Education
Berry, Brian J. L. – 1968
This resource paper on geographical theories of urban location is part of a series designed to supplement undergraduate geography courses. The basic reasons for a city are to be found in the activities it performs in a specialized society and the clustering of residences of workers employed in these activities. The city, therefore, remains a…
Descriptors: Community Size, Geographic Concepts, Geographic Location, Geographic Regions
Mayer, Harold M. – 1969
This resource paper on urban geography is part of a series designed to supplement undergraduate geography courses. It sets forth some of the principles of urban geography with special reference to form development and land uses within cities. Chapter one examines the legal, administrative, population, dentistry, and functional definitions of a…
Descriptors: Geographic Concepts, Geographic Regions, Geography Instruction, Higher Education
Stohr, Walter B. – 1974
This resource paper on economic geography is part of a series designed to supplement undergraduate geography courses. It interprets regional economic development in terms of geographic spatial patterns of production, income, and physical or economic distance. Chapter two outlines some selected characteristics of spatial disparities of economic…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economics, Geographic Concepts
Kasperson, Roger E.; Breitbart, Myrna – 1974
This resource paper on the subject of citizen participation, decentralization, and advocacy planning is part of a series designed to supplement undergraduate geography courses. The approach of the paper de-emphasizes inventory or case study reviews of specific participation or advocacy planning projects for a more general conceptual discussion of…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Control, Community Development
Download full textRose, Harold M. – 1969
Designed as supplementary material to undergraduate geography courses, this document focuses on a contemporary social problem and its relation to geography. The paper examines existing patterns of residential separation in which ethnic and racial groups--primarily black Americans--generally are spatially clustered in segments of urban space that…
Descriptors: Black Housing, College Instruction, Geography, Geography Instruction
