GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2011
Lecture Outline

Geography
Matters!

Inside Cities

Before Lecture
Reading assignment for today: Rubenstein pp. 290-303
Important Concepts from the textbook you should review before lecture (write a short definition): central business district, consumer services, business (producer) services, public services, urbanized area, metropolitan statistical area, micropolitan statistical area, megalopolis, annexation, metropolitan government, concentric zone model, sector model, multiple nuclei model, social area analysis, precolonial cities, colonial cities, squatter settlements, European cities
I have the following question(s) about the textbook reading:

Inside Cities: Shape and Structure

The morphology of cities

Concentric Zone Model

Assumptions about accessibility

Bid-rent curves

Resulting patterns

CBD

Zone of Transition and the rent-gap

Zone of working people's homes

Zone of better housing

Commuter's zone

Setting the model in motion

assumptions about invasion and succession and filtering

Other models

Corridors and Sectors

Multiple Nuclei

City Structure in Less Developed Countries

After Lecture

What was the main point of today's lecture?

Important concepts covered in this lecture (write a short definition):

One thing I did not fully understand today is:

What did I learn today that I did not know before?

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