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Urban geography is concerned with various aspects of cities including their location, evolution, growth, and classification. It represents a combination of fields like physical, cultural, and economic geography to understand aspects like why a city is located in a specific area, the people in an area, and economic activities. Urban geographers generally define a city based on concentrated populations with similar jobs, cultures, politics, and lifestyles. They also differentiate areas by size using a rural-urban continuum from small, dispersed hamlets and villages to concentrated, dense cities and metropolitan areas. Urban geography focuses on problems relating to the spatial distribution of and links between cities as a system, and the patterns of distribution and interaction within individual cities as internal systems.

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Urban geography is concerned with various aspects of cities including their location, evolution, growth, and classification. It represents a combination of fields like physical, cultural, and economic geography to understand aspects like why a city is located in a specific area, the people in an area, and economic activities. Urban geographers generally define a city based on concentrated populations with similar jobs, cultures, politics, and lifestyles. They also differentiate areas by size using a rural-urban continuum from small, dispersed hamlets and villages to concentrated, dense cities and metropolitan areas. Urban geography focuses on problems relating to the spatial distribution of and links between cities as a system, and the patterns of distribution and interaction within individual cities as internal systems.

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ED103 GEOGRAPHY 3 (URBAN)


WEEK 1 & 2 ACTIVITY
Name: JUN MARK B. YABO Year Level: BSED-III
1. Discuss the meaning of Urban Geography.

Urban geography is a branch of human geography concerned with various aspects of cities. An
urban geographer's main role is to emphasize location and space and study the spatial processes
that create patterns observed in urban areas. To do this, they study the site, evolution and growth,
and classification of villages, towns, and cities as well as their location and importance in relation
to different regions and cities. Economic, political and social aspects within cities are also
important in urban geography.

2. Explain the role of Urban Geography in Understanding Cities.

In order to fully understand each of these aspects of a city, urban geography represents a
combination of many other fields within geography. Physical geography, for example, is
important in understanding why a city is located in a specific area as site and environmental
conditions play a large role in whether or not a city develops. Cultural geography can aid in
understanding various conditions related to an area's people, while economic geography aids in
understanding the types of economic activities and jobs available in an area. Fields outside of
geography such as resource management, anthropology, and urban sociology are also important.

3. What does it mean to think about a city rationally?


An essential component within urban geography is defining what a city or urban area
actually is. Although a difficult task, urban geographers generally define the city as a
concentration of people with a similar way of life-based on job type, cultural preferences,
political views, and lifestyle. Specialized land uses, a variety of different institutions, and
use of resources also help in distinguishing one city from another.
In addition, urban geographers also work to differentiate areas of different sizes. Because
it is hard to find sharp distinctions between areas of different sizes, urban geographers
often use the rural-urban continuum to guide their understanding and help classify areas.
It takes into account hamlets and villages which are generally considered rural and
consist of small, dispersed populations, as well as cities and metropolitan areas
considered urban with concentrated, dense populations.
4. What are some of the ambivalent tension about cities that you have noted in your
everyday life?
Although urban geography has several different focuses and viewpoints, there are two
major themes that dominate its study today. The first of these is the study of problems
relating to the spatial distribution of cities and the patterns of movement and links that
connect them across space. This approach focuses on the city system. The second theme
in urban geography today is the study of patterns of distribution and interaction of people
and businesses within cities. This theme mainly looks at a city's inner structure and
therefore focuses on the city as a system.
In order to follow these themes and study cities, urban geographers often break down
their research into different levels of analysis. In focusing on the city system, urban
geographers must look at the city on the neighborhood and citywide level, as well as how
it relates to other cities on a regional, national and global level. To study the city as a
system and its inner structure as in the second approach, urban geographers are mainly
concerned with the neighborhood and city level.

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