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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.
  • 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
  • Video Questions: Guns, Germs, and Steel - Out of Eden

Week 3: Cities in America - The Story to 1945
  • Video Questions: New York, The Country and the City

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
  • Video Questions: New York, The City of Tomorrow

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
  • Video: 400 Years on One New York City Block
  • Article: Tarrant County Life Cycles
  • 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
  • Article: Arnstein's "Ladder of Citizen Participation"

Week 10: Regulation and Development
  • Denton Zoning Districts

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 "Megaregions" Page
  • 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
  • Video Questions: New York, The Center of the World

Week 14: Presentations
  • Presentation Schedule
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I am an educator and researcher in the field of location intelligence. I specialize in research related to connections between business strategy, entrepreneurship, and urban change, and in teaching on topics that link geography, businesses, and cities.

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  • Home
  • Profile
  • Research
  • Teaching
    • GEOG 2110
    • GEOG 3100
    • GEOG 4185
    • GEOG 4220
    • GEOG 4230
    • Careers in Location Intelligence
    • Graduate Students >
      • Graduate Studies With Me
      • Recent Graduates
      • Current Students
      • Thesis Topics Completed
  • Service Roles
  • Resources
  • Contact Me