GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Central Place Theory, Flat File Database, Barely Breaking Even
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Discuss how food systems are both place specific, but contain spatial generalities (regardless of where food systems occur, there is a generalization that can be drawn): Place specific: we have applied capitalism and industrialization into the united states food systems. However in china wet rice agriculture is extremely popular and reflects asian culture because it was a reaction to high density poplar areas (can feed a lot of people on a small area of land) Agriculture is the worst mistake that we ever made and it creates classes. Profound changes in human disease ecology (introduction of many infectious diseases) Urban geographers study the same study that other geographers study but in an urban area (they may study a specific industry and see how it effects demography or how a city becomes urbanized) Contain residential, commercial and other nonresidential urban land use. Begin with a dense core of at least 1,000 people.
