Geography 597.01: World Urbanization (Spring 2007)

This web page is your source for all course materials and links relevant to Geography 597. If you misplace any handouts or are looking for your weekly reading material, check here. I'm always interested in feedback from students, so please click here to email me.

Course Documents

Click below to download copies of class assignments and related materials:

• Course syllabus (MSWord format)
• City papers assignment (MSWord format)
• Discussion assignment (MSWord format)

Writing resources:

• The Academic Enrichment Center at OSU-Marion
• APA Style Tips
• Common Errors in English from a professor at Washington State University
• Citing References in Your Paper from the University of Wisconsin
  • The section on Quoting and Paraphrasing Sources is an excellent guide to avoiding inadvertent plagiarism and improving your writing.
  • This source also lists five different documentation styles. Feel free to work with whichever one you like; all I ask is that you use a consistent style throughout a single paper.

Discussion Resources

All material for past discussions is located here

Lecture Outlines

The following lecture outlines correspond to the written material from slides shown in class. They are in .rtf format and can be read by any word processing software. Please note that the outlines are password-protected, so refer to the username and password I provided in class (or check for it in your email) in order to access them.

• First exam material:
  • Introduction and History of Urbanization
  • Urbanization in Europe
  • Urbanization in the Former Soviet Union
  • Urbanization in East Asia
  • Urbanization in Southeast Asia
  • Urbanization in South Asia
  • Urbanization in the Greater Middle East (Southwest Asia & North Africa)
  • Urbanization in Africa
• Second exam material:
  • Urbanization in Middle America and the Caribbean
  • Urbanization in South America
  • Urbanization in North America:
    • North American Urban History
    • Urban Development
    • Two lectures scheduled for May 21: Urban Morphology/Urban Life and Planning and Zoning
    • Suburbanization and Sprawl
    • The Ghetto and Urban Renewal

Links to outside resources and other links of geographical interest

Urban geography:

• An essay on Milton Keynes, UK, "the city that thinks differently"
• US city and metro area populations and trends
• City Population Figures
• The World Gazetteer (city, metro area, and country population figures)
• The largest cities in the world throughout history, from about.com
• The United Nations Human Settlements Programme
• The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
• Virtual Cities, photo tours of various large and small cities worldwide
• Urban Tours by Rental Car, from demographia.com
• Two sides of the story on urban sprawl:
  • SprawlWatch
  • The Public Purpose
• Ohio County Profiles from the Ohio Dept of Development (information on poverty, employment, etc)
• The Best Dead Mall in America
• Dead Malls

Geography in general:

• Geography at About.com, an excellent collection of information about the discipline and links to more resources
• TopoZone, a collection of large-scale topographical maps covering the entire United States
• Globalis, the United Nations' Interactive Map

The Ohio State University Geography Department Site
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