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GEOG 350Regional Urban Systems

Faculty
Environment
Offered
Fall
Credit
0.5
Last listed
1994–95

No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1970–71 to 1994–95 (before that, 1963–64 to 1965–66 used the number for Urban Geography and Settlement Patterns); the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.

Theories, models and research procedures dealing with the growth and support of urban centres and city systems and their role in regional development.

As printed in the 1987–88 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.

Requirements, as last listed

Prereq: GEOG 202A or GEOG 251 or consent of instructor

Check it elsewhere

In the scanned calendars

How it read in each calendar from 1963–64 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.

1987–88 to 1994–95 7 calendars

Theories, models and research procedures dealing with the growth and support of urban centres and city systems and their role in regional development.

Prereq: GEOG 202A or GEOG 251 or consent of instructor

Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit

Not in the 1985–86 to 1986–87 calendars.

1970–71 to 1984–85 13 calendars

An examination of theories, models, and research procedures appropriate to the study of the external structure and function of urban centres and their role in the spatial economy. Focuses on the growth and support of urban centres and city systems, on relationships between aspects of urbanization and regional development, on the outward growth of cities, and on analytical techniques useful in studying such topics.

Prereq: Geog 202 or Geog 251 or consent of instructor.

Offered Winter, Spring · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit

Not in the 1966–67 to 1969–70 calendars.

1963–64 to 1965–66 3 calendars

Another title: Urban Geography and Settlement Patterns, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).

A description and analysis of the geographic characteristics and relationships of urban centres, their origin, development, distribution, functions, internal structure, economic and political organization; industrial and commercial locational factors; the effects of transportation on settlement patterns.

2 lectures, 2 hours seminar.