Urban Geography Syllabus and Handouts
Click on the following weekly links to download handout documents and readings associated with this course.
Week 1: Urbanization and Urban Geography
Below are some basic documents for this course.
Week 2: City Origins and Growth
Week 3: Cities in America - The Story to 1945
Week 4: Cities in America - 1945 to Present
Week 5: Foundations of Urban Form
Week 6: Changing Metropolitan Form
Week 7: How Neighborhoods Change
Week 8: Urban Community Planning
Week 9: Participation in Community Planning
Week 10: Regulation and Development
Week 11: Development of Regions and Metropolitan Areas
Week 12: Planning for Small Towns
Week 13: Video Case Study and Project Work Week
Week 14: Presentations
Week 1: Urbanization and Urban Geography
Below are some basic documents for this course.
- GEOG 4210 Syllabus (Undergraduate Urban Geography Course)
- GEOG 4210 Referencing Document
- GEOG 4210 Report Expectations
- GEOG 4210 Research Questions Guidelines
- GEOG 4210 Writing Expectations
- GEOG 5210 Syllabus (Graduate Urban Geography Course)
- GEOG 5210 Report Expectations
- Article: Global Cities Revisited
- Article: Transit Deserts in Texas Cities
- Note-Taking Handout (from Stanford University's Center for Teaching and Learning)
Week 2: City Origins and Growth
Week 3: Cities in America - The Story to 1945
Week 4: Cities in America - 1945 to Present
- Esri StoryMap: Comparing Past and Present, Washington DC Today and in 1851
- Article: How Freeways Transformed America's Cities
Week 5: Foundations of Urban Form
Week 6: Changing Metropolitan Form
- Video Questions: Nowhere Fast!
- Growth Rings: US Population Change Maps by Metro Area
- Cool Climate Network: Carbon Footprint Maps
- Article: Decline of Detroit
- Article: The Shrinking City of Chicago
- Article: Taking Down Freeways Article
- Article: Mapping the Lasting Effects of Redlining
- Article: Imagining a City Without its Public Transportation
Week 7: How Neighborhoods Change
- Reference Document: Esri Tapestry Segmentation Reference Guide. (This is one example of an actual social area analysis tool)
Week 8: Urban Community Planning
- Esri StoryMap: Public GIS Services and Access to Community Information in the Salt Lake City Region
- Esri StoryMap: East New York Neighborhood Plan
Week 9: Participation in Community Planning
Week 10: Regulation and Development
Week 11: Development of Regions and Metropolitan Areas
- Minneapolis-St. Paul Regional Planning Page (explore the "Regional Development Framework" and "Thrive MSP 2040" Links)
- The Regional Plan Association's Main Page (the RPA is a New York-focused planning organization)
- Video Questions: Chicago - Farming on the Edge (the Chicago segment we will view begins around the 12:00 mark)
Week 12: Planning for Small Towns
- Booneville Case Study Introduction
- Small Town Case Study: Megargel, TX
- Small Town Case Study: Endicott, WA
- Small Town Case Study: Marathon, TX
Week 13: Video Case Study and Project Work Week
Week 14: Presentations