Urban, Retail, and Transportation Geography
Bullet Trains
They've been in Japan since the 60s, in Europe since the 80s, and they'll soon be in the U.S.A.City Changes Name to Half.com
Halfway, Oregon changed its name to Half.com, becoming the world's first ".com" city.Edge Cities
They're sprouting up in a suburb near you!Erie Canal
The Erie Canal became the superhighway of transportation in the first half of the 1800s and opened up the Upper Midwest of the United States to farming and migration.Gravity Model
The gravity model can predict the flow of people, goods, or communication between any two places. It's based on Newton's Law of Gravitation and modified for spatial use.Grocery Stores, Supermarkets, and Piggly Wiggly
A look at the development of the modern grocery store and supermarket.Interstate Highways
A brief history of the world's largest public works project.The Largest Cities in Area in the U.S.A.
The four largest cities in area in the United States.Largest Cities Through History
The largest city of the world over the last five thousand years along with lists of the ten largest cities for the years 100, 1000, 1500, 1800, 1900, and 1950.Largest Metropolitan Areas in the World
The fifteen largest metropolitan areas in the world are huge and always growing; current population and links to area maps for the largest conurbations in the world.The Law of the Primate City and the Rank-Size Rule
The largest city in a country usually symbolizes the entire country.Levittown
The story of Abraham Levitt and his sons, who had the greatest impact on U.S. postwar housing through the construction of their three Levittowns, which resulted in over 140,000 homes.Mallaise!
The dreaded Mallaise strikes; learn how not to get it.Megalopolis
Geographer Jean Gottmann defined the area from Boston to Washington as one huge urban area.Metropolitan Areas Population Estimates
The Census Bureau released their population estimates for the country's largest cities.Metropolitan Newspaper Circulation
Read about the study that helped show the influence of cities.Ten Largest Counties by Population
The largest counties in the U.S.A.A Visit to Horton Plaza
San Diego's downtown mall has transformed the Central Business District.The Von Thünen Model
In geography, there are many land use models. One of the oldest and most famous is the Von Thünen Isolated State model of agricultural land use.What's an Urban Area?
Find out why we can't compare countries based on their percentage of urbanized populations.World's Busiest Airports
The twenty busiest and their official web sites.The World's Largest Shopping Malls
Take a virtual tour of two huge shopping centers.Zoning
A brief overview of zoning history in the United States.