HGAP

Types of agriculture and settlement patterns

Challenges of contemporary agriculture

Environmental and social consequences

Patterns and methods of surveying rural settlements

Cultural diffusion and advancements in technology

Cities and Urban Land Use/Services

Forces driving urbanization

Primate city

Central place theory

The internal structure of cities

Suburbanization process

Effects of urbanization

Size and distribution of cities

Impact of infrastructure

Gentrification

Urban data

Urban Sustainability Challenges

Smart-growth policies

Urban sprawl

Census data

Cities and globalization

Industrialization/Development

Outsourcing

Cottage industries

Globalization

Basis for trade

Measures of development

International lending agencies

Measures of social and economic development

Theories of development

Core-periphery relationships

Trends in manufacturing

Changes as a result of the world economy

Weber’s comparative costs

Rostow’s stages of economic growth

Sectors of economic activity

Women and Economic Development

Sustainable development

Trade and the world economy