What is gentrification? Gentrification is a socio-spatial process in which higher income groups move into lower income neighborhoods. The higher income groups typically renovate
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Category: Human Geography
Human geography is the study of human activities over space and the spatial relationships between human phenomena such as politics, economics, demographics, and culture.
Models of Urban Form & Development
Cities grow and evolve over time, forming patterns guided by an array of physical, economic, political, and technological influences. While no two cities are exactly
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The Geography of Religion
There are few things that both unite and divide people as effectively as organized religion. Up until modern times, nearly every civilization, society and empire
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Deindustrialization
Deindustrialization is the decline in industrial activity in a region, as manufacturing jobs as a share of total employment falls. Deindustrialization is caused by a
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Urban Planning
What is urban planning? Urban planning is both a technical and political process that seeks to regulate the form and growth of human settlements. This
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Urban Sprawl
What is Urban Sprawl? Geographers, urbanists, and other social scientists have attempted to define urban sprawl (or, perhaps more accurately, “suburban sprawl”) for decades. Although
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Food Deserts
What are food deserts? Food deserts can be best described as areas where people have limited access to healthy food. Impoverished neighborhoods and communities are
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Time Geography
What is time geography? Time Geography is a theory in behavioral geography that explains how people move in time and space. Before the Swedish geographer
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Urban Geography
What is urban geography? Urban geography is the study of cities from a spatial perspective; how people, infrastructure, and ideas vary over space both within
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Sense of Place
What is sense of place? Sense of place refers to the degree of meaning people ascribe to a particular location or area. Those places deemed
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