GEOG 1HB3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Urban Geography, Political Geography, Gerrymandering
25 Dec 2016
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Nationalism assumes that the nation-state is the natural political unit. Many european states undertook periods of exploration and expansion, trying to build their empires by colonizing countries in. There is variation amongst states about how they are ruled. Symptoms of instability can include conflicts, civil war, terrorism, or control by drug trade. Anarchism a political philosophy that rejects the state and argues that social order is possible with- out a state. (p. 323) Centrifugal forces in political geography, forces that make it difficult to bind an area together as an effective state; in urban geography, forces that favour the decentralization of urban land uses. (p. 308) Centripetal forces in political geography, forces that pull an area together as one unit to create a relatively stable state; in urban geography, forces that favour the concentration of urban land uses in a central area. (p. 308)
