GEO 320 Urban Geography Fall 2007
Department of Geography and Meteorology, Valparaiso University
What is a City?

(We did not cover these issues explicitly via a lecture, nevertheless these questions and headings may provide you with a framework through which to review your readings in your text as well as our in-class activity.)

What is a city?

City as a Region

  • How do you tell what is urban and what is not?

The City as a Scale

The City as a Place

  • Urbanism

The City as Landscape

The City as Space

The City as A system

Formal Definitions

  • Metropolitain Area
  • Urbanized Area
  • City
  • Village
  • Town
  • Rural
  • Exurb
  • Megacity
  • Conurbanion

Overbounded vs. Underbounded Cities

What is Valparaiso?