L1 - 3

Question 1

Defining Cities

Answer 1

Complex to define, combined response required
population metrics, economic regions, sociocultural imaginations, administrative boundaries

Question 2

Original city zone model

Answer 2

Core -> outwards through rings

Question 3

Economic definitions of cities

Answer 3

There are population metrics, economic regions, sociocultural imaginations, administrative boundaries, and so on… but all have their own strengths and weaknesses

Question 4

Socio Cultural definitions of cities

Answer 4

Cultural link between those living in cities

Question 5

political defining of cities

Answer 5

Cities and their boundaries are also defined by their political/ administrative boundaries
Refer Back to GEOG 307 (UoA)

Question 6

Population definintions of cities

Answer 6

Defining what a city is through how many people live in a certain location ( i.e. over 30,000 defines a city )

Question 7

Geographical approach to cities

Answer 7

Role of space as an absolute or relational in processes including the economy, politics, cultures

Socialisation of Space

Scale as level of analysis

spatial justice

Question 8

What is space

Answer 8

Physical location, shaped and formed and managed by people

Question 9

Describe how the city is a socio spatial proccess

Answer 9

the mutually constitutive relationship between society… and space – the organization of built environments, landscapes, and so on. How a society operates, understands itself, and is governed is reflected by the spaces that it produces

Question 10

Concentric zone model

Answer 10

Industry and slums in middle, working homes closer to center wealth residential spaces by edge of city

Question 11

Bid rent theory

Answer 11

Land decreases in value rom cbd ( so only business can afford center and residential can only buy cheaper land further out )

Question 12

Geography in 50s/60s

Answer 12

Extremely Quantative in approaches

Question 13

Geography in the 70s

Answer 13

Critical turn against statistical inference to wider social inter relations
why cities were sites of conflict?

Question 14

Components of Critical Approaches to geography

Answer 14

New concepts for wider social processes
Socially relevant and politically engaged research
experiences of ordinary urban residents and other marginalized social groups

Question 15

List Major critical approaches

Answer 15

Structuralist, post modern, post colonial

Question 16

Define Structuralism

Answer 16

How processes are shaped by the capitalist economic system, mode of production.

Question 17

Define Postmodernism

Answer 17

Assemblage of many different geographies ( queer, racialized, feminist etc)

Question 18

Post Colonialism definition

Answer 18

Eurocentric understanding of how cities are developed
also looks at the ongoing effects of colonialism on urban life

Question 19

How critical approaches are Urban

Answer 19

who has the right to the city, who shapes and is shaped by said city & cities for whom