GGR207H5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Urban Geography, Deindustrialization, Central Place Theory

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Topics that will be tested on the mid-term test (pacione chaps 2, 3, 4, 6, 10, 14, 23; b +f chapters 1, 8; yeates chapter 5) Definitions of urban", the urban process, urban growth, urbanization, Urbanism as a way of life, theories of louis worth, georg simmel. Fundamental" characteristics of cities, primary and secondary attributes of the urban (production, proximity, reproduction, capitalization, place, governance, Hypotheses concerning the origins of cities (irrigation, military, economic, religious) The basic internal structures/forms of medieval, pre-industrial, and industrial cities. Linkages between urbanization and economic, social, political, development. Urbanization and modernization theory, the stages of growth (rostow) Cycles of urban/ economic development (inventory, kuznets, kondratieff, business) Urban systems, urban networks, rank-size (zipf) rule, primate cities. Standard / classic" model, alternate colonial model, of urban system growth. Degrees of closure and interdependence within urban systems. City-size distributions, urban hierarchies, phases of urban system change. Periodization of the development of the north american system.

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