GEOG 537 - UrbanPatterns-Proc&Sustainabil

Credits: 4

Urbanization, planning and sustainability are rooted in the key geographic concepts and processes that affect globalization and economic development, social institutions and social equity, and environmental and sustainability factors and serve as focal points in discussing spatial patterns and planning locations. Examples include conceptual explanations and empirically-based models of land use and settlement theories incorporating traditional ecological, straight-line assimilation models that produced ethnic enclaves followed by suburbanization to the more recent segmented assimilation and pluralism that recognize the recent spatial variation in spatial forms, as well as natural hazards and land use planning, also examples of sustainability. This course will be offered each Fall semester. Fixed Course