GEOG 3205 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - City, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Urban Sprawl

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Key assumptions of cities: everything is connected, cities are more than just physical structures. Contemporary cities: economic change & urban restructuring. Industries have been moving away from agriculture & manufacturing, and toward service activities (business, public sector, non-profit) Triggered by economic globalization & new digital telecommunications technologies: demographic & cultural change. Change in household composition: now: 2 wage-earners, 33% of households have at least one family member living alone, several single-parent families, leads to increased need for housing, transportation, etc. Increase of consumerism: more women working outside the home and focusing less on childbearing. Heavy reliance on statistical data to understand special organization of cities: maps, graphs, counts, tables, etc, populations, demographics, etc, behavioral. Studies people"s activities and decision-making processes: where people decide to live, how they experience the area around them, deviant behavior, etc, structuralist. Look beneath obvious external factors to understand underlying mechanisms at work: poststructuralist.

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