 |  Introduction to Geography, 8/e Arthur Getis,
San Diego State University
Judith Getis
Jerome D. Fellmann,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Urban Geography
Objectives:After reading and studying this chapter you should be able to:
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Understand the difference between urbanization and urban growth.
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Identify the most and least rapidly urbanizing areas of the world and be able to explain the difference in
demographic terms.
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Differentiate between the legal city, urbanized areas and metropolitan areas.
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Classify locational attributes of a city as being either site or situation characteristics.
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Describe the major features of Central Place Theory.
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Separate the economic activities of a city into basic and nonbasic and calculate the employment
multiplier from a set of employment figures for basic and nonbasic sectors.
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Describe the idealized land use distribution of both western and non-western cities and explain why the
patterns exist as they do.
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Describe the three criteria used to identify urban social areas and explain their spatial patterns in cities.
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Explain the factors that promote suburbanization and central city change.
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Describe the process of gentrification.
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Explain the differences in urbanization and urban structure between developed and developing parts of the
world.
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2002 McGraw-Hill Higher Education