|
Unit 3: Cultural Geography
(Chapter 4)
Identity
Folk vs. Popular culture
Mass/elite culture
Globalization
Colonization, commodification, distance
decay, time-space compression, reterritorialization, global-local continuum,
placelessness, glocalization ("think globally, act locally")
Unit 4: Political
Geography
(Chapter 8)
Nation;
State
Nation-state
European Model (sovereignty &
nationalism, colonialism)
Territorial Morphology
Compact, elongated, fragmented,
perforated, prorupt (protruded)
Microstates
Exclave & Enclave
Boundaries
Evolution: definition, delimitation,
demarcation
Types: geometric, physical (natural)-
political, cultural political
Genesis: antecedent, subsequent,
superimposed, relict
Disputes: definitional, locational,
operational, allocational
Frontier
World-Systems Analysis (Wallerstein's
core-periphery model)
Geopolitics (Ratzel's organic theory)
Heartland Theory (Mackinder)
Rimland Theory (Spykman)
Core Areas (and multicore states)
Capital City (and forward capitals)
Primate City
Unitary vs. federal states
Gerrymandering
Centripetal vs. centrifugal forces
Supranationalism
League of Nations & United Nations
UNPO
Law of the sea
Territorial sea, Truman Proclamation, EEZ (Exclusive Economic
Zone), median-line principle
Multinational unions (Benelux, EU, NAFTA)
New World Order
Devolution
Ethnonationalism
Gateway states
Near Abroad (former Soviet sphere)
Globalization
Notions of democracy, commercialism,
religious fundamentalism
|
Unit 5: Rural Geography
Chapter 11
Economic Activities
Primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary,
quinary
Rise of Agriculture
Hunting & gathering, metallurgy, plant &
animal domestication (First Agricultural
Revolution)
Subsistence farming
Shifting cultivation
Second Agricultural Revolution
Von Thünen Model (The Isolated State)
Dispersed vs. nucleated settlements
Functional differentiation
Rural Dwellings (unchanged-traditional,
modified-traditional, modernized-traditional,
modern)
Building materials (wood, brick, stone, wattle,
grass & brush)
Folk-housing (e.g. New England, Mid Atlantic)
Maladaptive diffusion
Village forms (linear, cluster, round, walled,
grid pattern)
Patterns of Rural Settlement
Primogeniture, cadastral system, rectangular
survey system (township-and-range)
Commercial agriculture
Plantation agriculture
Location of world crops
Rice, corn, dairy, wheat, livestock,
Mediterranean, luxury crops, illegal drugs
Third Agricultural Revolution (e.g. India)
Commodity chains (e.g. agribusiness)
Unit 6: Urban
Geography
Chapter 9
Early urbanization
Egalitarian vs. stratified societies, formative
era, urban elite, theocratic centers,
Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome
Medieval Optimum (warmer climate) vs. Little
Ice Age (12th - 13th c.)
Societal Classification - Sjoberg
Folk-preliterate, feudal, preindustrial,
urban-industrial
Primate city
Urban banana (crescent-shaped zone)
Mercantile-manufacturing-modern cities
Postmodernism
Urban hierarchy
Hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis,
megalopolis (e.g. Bosnywash)
Hinterland
Megacity
Site & situation
Urban components
CBD (central business district), central city,
inner city, suburb
Central place theory (Christaller)
Central goods & services, range of sale,
threshold, complementary region, hexagons
Urban models
Borchert's four-stage theory of American
urbanization (epochs: Sail-Wagon, Iron
Horse, Steel-Rail, Auto-Air-Amenity, "High
Technology"), Concentric zone (Burgess),
sector (Hoyt), multiple nuclei (Harris &
Ullman), urban realms
Edge cities
Rank-size rule
Economic base (basic vs. nonbasic sectors,
a.k.a. employment structure)
Multiplier effect (1:2 for most large cities)
Functional specialization
Modern city models (foreign)
Latin-American, Southeast Asian,
Sub-Saharan African
Sociocultural influences
Redlining, blockbusting, racial steering Agglomeration
(nucleation) & deglomeration
Zoning laws
Immigration
Asylum seeker
Informal economy
Remittances, "under-the-table", black
market, illegal drug trade
Urban America
Inner city, deglomeration, gentrification,
commercialization, suburbanization
Canadian city
European city (& greenbelts)
World cities (e.g. NYC, London, Tokyo,...)
Primate cities (e.g. Paris, Mexico City, Lagos, Dhaka, ...)
Eastern European city (& microdistricsts)
Spaces of consumption (e.g. Times Square, Downtown Disney, Las Vegas Strip ...) |