Topic #1

  1. Notes

  • PowerPoint is on final exam write up


  • Why are geographers interested in city structures


  • City structure models

  • Burgess model

  • Group of circles center us business districts

  • Second low income neighborhoods

  • Why do suburbs exist

  • Segregation

  • Polarization

  • Bring policies like where to build afford housing need to study where population is

  • Transport may not be and depends on where people live in reLatino to where most places are in a city

  • Complex forms and social structures that urban geographers look at

  • Some people want immigrants to come in Canada like younger people and so they can do education etc

  • Can we measure impactful forces like economic demographic social culture forces in internal structures of cities

  • What are outcomes consequences of social problems

  • cities are multicultural

  • Some social networks that are powerful while others are disconnected

  • Leads to unsafe like women feeling unsafe in taking transportation like the bus


  1. book review

  • flexible around urban social geography can be other topic associated with this human geography

  • Not quantity of words

  • Main purpose main goal

  • Describe briefly each chapter

  • Explain if it’s a clear read to students in undergraduate

  • Give opinion of clarity

  • Give comment on who can read the book

  • What main methods were used

  • explain if it’s primary or secondary sources in introduction