GEOG 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hudson Valley, Laurentide Ice Sheet, New York State Thruway
9 Feb 2017
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Lecture 1 - 01/17: think like a geographer: ag, soil, etc. Not dry dust geography: boring, dry, a mass of isolated facts; no animating principle. John wesley powell- (cid:862)skilled e(cid:455)e of a geographer(cid:863: shape of the land: mountains, trees, buildings. The earth is not uniformed: landscape: looking in natural perspective. Why the shapes of the land have changed. Morphologic eye- critical attention to form and pattern: spatial system or compage: overcast view. Elements: regions, routes, places, and boundaries: shaping of the landscape. Developments of the past and the future. Geographical inertia- tendency of settlements and roads remain fixed and develops slow. Lecture 2 01/19 ( new york city: primate city: first rank- primate of the us. New york is the economic capital: not the political capital. Rank size rule- largest city in the world will be 2x as large as the second largest city. 8,175,133 people vs la with 3,792,621 in 2010.
