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Introduction<\/h1>\r\nOur readings for this module span the concepts that are the foundation for the course: urban, geography, and taken together, urban geography.\r\n

What is Urban?<\/h1>\r\nAlthough we don't delve deeply into the history of cities (CSU has a course for that), it is nonetheless a good idea to have bit of background on the type of settlement that we'll spend our semester learning about. From the e-book Urban Literacy: Learning to Read the City Around You, please read Chapter 1: Cities<\/a>.\r\n\r\nIt's also worth noting that the urban form you see before you today didn't evolve without it's challenges. Thus, from the e-book US History, in the chapter on The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900, please read the section on\r\nUrbanization and its Challenges<\/a>\r\n

What is geography?<\/h1>\r\nDefining geography is no easy task! It's more than memorizing state capitals and being a valued asset in games of Trivial Pursuit! Geography means looking at the world through a spatial lens. Your first reading on this topic, Defining Geography<\/a>: does a great job at framing this geographic perspective using just a few common questions: What is Where, Why There, Why care?\r\n\r\nYour second reading, What is Geography?<\/a>, introduces you to a few of the concepts that are at the center of geographers' concern, and it also has a good description of Geography's four subfields.\r\n

What about urban geography?<\/h1>\r\nFinally, we get to put these together and talk about Urban Geography.\r\n\r\nThe first reading, Urban Geography - Concepts and Terminology<\/a> provides a great introduction to the types of problems that urban geographers often study, and introduces you to a lot of important vocabulary.\r\n\r\nThe second reading is the Urban Geography entry in the Encyclopedia of Human Geography. It provides a useful overview of the academic field of urban geography and its six subfields. Here is a link to the encyclopedia entry<\/a>.","rendered":"

Introduction<\/h1>\n

Our readings for this module span the concepts that are the foundation for the course: urban, geography, and taken together, urban geography.<\/p>\n

What is Urban?<\/h1>\n

Although we don’t delve deeply into the history of cities (CSU has a course for that), it is nonetheless a good idea to have bit of background on the type of settlement that we’ll spend our semester learning about. From the e-book Urban Literacy: Learning to Read the City Around You, please read Chapter 1: Cities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It’s also worth noting that the urban form you see before you today didn’t evolve without it’s challenges. Thus, from the e-book US History, in the chapter on The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900, please read the section on
\nUrbanization and its Challenges<\/a><\/p>\n

What is geography?<\/h1>\n

Defining geography is no easy task! It’s more than memorizing state capitals and being a valued asset in games of Trivial Pursuit! Geography means looking at the world through a spatial lens. Your first reading on this topic, Defining Geography<\/a>: does a great job at framing this geographic perspective using just a few common questions: What is Where, Why There, Why care?<\/p>\n

Your second reading, What is Geography?<\/a>, introduces you to a few of the concepts that are at the center of geographers’ concern, and it also has a good description of Geography’s four subfields.<\/p>\n

What about urban geography?<\/h1>\n

Finally, we get to put these together and talk about Urban Geography.<\/p>\n

The first reading, Urban Geography – Concepts and Terminology<\/a> provides a great introduction to the types of problems that urban geographers often study, and introduces you to a lot of important vocabulary.<\/p>\n

The second reading is the Urban Geography entry in the Encyclopedia of Human Geography. It provides a useful overview of the academic field of urban geography and its six subfields. Here is a link to the encyclopedia entry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":466,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-25","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":30,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/urban-geography-csu\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/urban-geography-csu\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/urban-geography-csu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/urban-geography-csu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/466"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/urban-geography-csu\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/urban-geography-csu\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/25\/revisions\/176"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/urban-geography-csu\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/30"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/urban-geography-csu\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/25\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/urban-geography-csu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/urban-geography-csu\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/urban-geography-csu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.ulib.csuohio.edu\/urban-geography-csu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}