Unit 1 Flashcards
is the study of cities its layout, patterns, and the factors that shape it and continue to change it. It is also the study of cities that reveal how money and power shape urban spaces.
Urban Geography
is a discipline under the human geography that uses past ideas and approaches, and current concepts and issues in the modern era
Urban Geography
urban geography’s infancy-meaning, it is the foundational study in Urban Geography.
EARLY APPROACH
the early twentieth century was concerned with the physical characteristics for developing an area’s settlement and development.
Site and Situation
which is developed during the twentieth century in some German universities.
Urban Morphology,
During the _______, a more mature approach came to control the study of Urban Geography.
post-1950s
tends to use scientific investigation in the study of urban geography - it usually adheres to evidence, hypothesis, and theories.
Positivism
Possitivism classifies into two categories:
the Ecological and the Neo-classical methods.
are based upon the idea that human behavior is determined by its ecology - meaning that the influential group would usually tend to get a more comfortable and suitable space for them.
Ecological methods
methods are about the belief that human behavior is inspired by rationality which means that every decision in taking or obtaining a space has undergone different considerations
Neo-classical
These two approaches are focused on the interaction or relationship between
human behaviors and the environment.
Behavioral and Humanistic Approach
sought to expand the idea that the environment’s subjective knowledge is influencing human behavior
The behavioral approach
pursued the human as the center of changes in the environment - it means that people’s actions, symbols, values cultures affect the environment
The humanistic approach
It is an approach in geography that focuses on the idea that each change in the environment and human behavior connect with society’s different structures. For example, before a person starts a business, they should first consider their business location, then the people around that area (students, office workers, churchgoers, etc.), and the place’s economic status.
Structural Analysis
This theory serves as a criticism in the Modern approach in Geography. Like in Philosophy, _______ believes that not everything is the absolute truth and that every individual has their truth. For example, some individuals perceive that people living in the slums came from the provinces and then finding out that some came from different cities and just relocated there
Postmodern Approach
In studying the concept of cities, we need to know its five (5) key ideas:
1.Cities are constantly changing.
2.This change is essential and transforms the structure of the cities
3Contemporary cities have an extreme diversity in their nature
4.Many models for urbanity is created to identify the characteristics of different types of cities in general
5.The study of urban geography has evolved and changed through times.
-initially used during the Cold War to distinguish nations neither aligned with the West (NATO) nor the East
(Communist bloc).
-Today, this idea often describes the developing countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania.
Third World cities
an ideal place. These cities’ designs desire to shape a new future in older, existing cities, such as Berlin and Leipzig, and new ones, such as Halle-Neustadt and Stalinstadt, later named as Eisenhüttenstadt.
Cities in Socialist countries
the world’s most important center and influence on globalization. This type of city has a set of values and ideas, which will significantly affect the world
Global (World) cities
consists of independent structures like
factories and small facilities located on a city’s outskirts.
Older Industrial Cities
came from Alfred Marshall’s concept or idea, wherein he described it as a place where workers and the firms where they work live and work.
New Industrial districts
The conditions that prevailed in the inner residential areas made it ripe for study by some
satirists, journalists, novelists, and social reporters
’ Hard Times (1854)
Charles Dickens
North and South (1845);
Elizabeth Gaskell’s
’ exploration of Manchester published in The Condition of the Working Class in England (1844).
Friedrich Engels
