1hb3 lecture 1 introduction 2014

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Welcome toGEOG 1HB3

Human Geographies:City and EconomyWinter 2014Lecture 1


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Instructor

• Dr. Walter Peace

Office: GSB 201

Email: [email protected]

Office Hours: Monday 3:30 – 4:30

Tuesday 10:30 – 11:30

(Or by appointment)

mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Instructional Assistant

• Ms. Julia Evanovitch

Office: BSB 317D

Email: [email protected]

Office Hours: See Avenue

mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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Things You Need to Know:

• Reading material (Both available in Titles)

• Text: James M. Rubenstein “Contemporary Human Geography”

2nd edition

• Courseware: GEOG 1HB3 Human Geographies: City and

Economy (Winter 2014)

• Evaluation:

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Mid-term test (February 5) 15%• Assignments/Labs 45%

• Final Exam 40%


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Things You Need to Know:

• Labs begin in the week of January 20th

• Be sure to bring your GEOG 1HB3 Courseware to every lab


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Some Advice

• Go to class in all of your courses!

• Keep up with course work in all of your courses!

• Ask questions in all of your courses!


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My Teaching Philosophy

• The value of your education lies not in its market

value, but rather in the way it makes us better

citizens and more virtuous individuals.

• To paraphrase JFK, “Ask not what your educationcan do for you; ask what you can do for your

university education.”

• Awareness – Appreciation – Action


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What is geography?

• “Geography is a flavour”

____________________?

• “The geography might be a little difficult to arrange.”

____________________?

• Geography – the study of patterns and processes on the

earth’s surface

• Root words:

• Geo (Greek) – earth or world

• Graphei (Greek) – to write


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Two sub-disciplines of geography:

• Physical geography:

• The study of patterns and processes in the physical environment

• e.g., landforms, climate, hydrology,…

• Human geography:

• The study of patterns and processes in the human environment

• e.g., society, culture, economy, settlement,…


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• Urban-economic geography:

• A branch of human geography dealing with patterns and

processes related to cities and economic activities

• e.g., (1) What factors underlie urban land use patterns?

(2) How are urbanization trends related to level of

development?

(3) Why do economic activities locate where they do?


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The basic concerns of the geographer:

• Description – spatial patterns (WHAT?)

• Explanation – spatial processes (WHY?)

• Interpretation – spatial meaning (SO WHAT?)


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Why study geography?

• Geography matters!

• “Geographers explain where things are, why they are there,

and why their locations have significance.”

Rubenstein (2013, 4)


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Note:

• Other social scientists study the same subject matter (people)

as human geographers; what differs are the perspectives and

methods used (See Rubenstein, Chapter 1)


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Questions

• What is the title of this picture?

• Who painted this picture?

• When was it painted?

• What does the picture say about the subject?


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• Title: The Geographer

• Artist: Johannes Vermeer

• Date: 1669

• One interpretation:

• “…the seventeenth century was a time of discovery, when the

charting of new and unexplored worlds was a dream realized not

only by adventurers and traders, but also by geographers and

astronomers. So, may he be thinking about a discovery of utter

importance? Is he maybe putting down his own discovery on

paper, so that other ingenious (people) might be informed?”


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• Another possible interpretation:

• “Here, in a visual image that we can grasp in an instant, is a

(geographer) discovering a new fact about reality in a world wideopen to (an) inquiring mind.”

• What’s your interpretation of ‘The Geographer’?

• What ‘discoveries’ and ‘new facts about reality’ can we hope

to experience in this course?


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Finally…

“The Map of the Day”

• “Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica”

• Joan Blaeu

• 1662


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Thank You.

See you in our next class.

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