Human Geography

nucleated settlement

How do Carol's 5 Stages apply to the development of setlements?

What are some reasons for isolated farmsteads?

intensity theory

Constants of von Thunen's Agricultural Location Theory

Crop theory

What are the 3 models of urban land use?

What are the key concepts of Christaller's Central Place Theory?

What are the factors of industrial location?

Slum

Ghetto

Hidden structural unemployment

Where has been called the paradigmatic city for much of the 20th century?

Where to most geographers consider to be the post-modern paradigmatic city?

What are elements of post-modern urban centers?

Dual city

Hybrid city

Model industrial villages

The City beautiful movement

What does von Thunen's Agricultural Location Theory address?

What is the order of agricultural product location according to von Thunen?

What are criticisms of von Thunen's theory?

What does BJ Garner suggest as similar structures of cities?

What is meant by the function of a settlement?

What are the constants of Weber's Least-Cost Location theory?

What is the underlying principle of the Least-Cost location theory?

Explain material index

What does Weber's theory suggest about labour?

What are some criticisms of Weber's theory?

How are location figures helpful?

Explain Bungee's Economic Rent Argument (3 cities)

Colonial heritage

Primate city

What is hyperurbanization?

What is political geography?

Explain the types/categories of political geography

Explain the Heartland Theory

Explain the Rimland Theory

What is geopolitics?

International power balance

What are reasons for selection of a capital city?

What are the elements related to the morphology of state?

Temporal dimension

What are some types of subsequent borders that are created?

How are boundary lines developed?

Explain Centripetal and Centrifugal forces

What is meant by "development"?

What assumptions are made about development?

Describe the "tickle down effect"

What is Rostow's model?

What are some problems with Rostow's Economic Development model?

What is meant by underdevelopment?

What is Andre Frank's argument about development?

How can underdeveloped countries move ahead?

What are dependency theories?

What is globalization?

Who sees globalization as a positive thing?

Who sees globalization negatively?

When did globalization begin?

How has the idea of globalization changed in the last 40 years?

What are some consequences of globalization?

What will happen to geography as a result of globalization?

What is glocalization?

What are the assumptions of Central Place Theory?

What are some drawbacks to Central Place Theory?

What does Blumenfeld suggest as differences between industrial and pre-industrial cities?

Basic function vs non-basic function of cities