Urban, economic, and transportation geography examine the places we live, how we move ourselves and our goods, the structure of our cities, and the pattern of cities on the landscape.
An overview of the environmental and green concept of sustainable development. Learn all about sustainable development of homes, businesses, and even entire communities in this method of helping to preserve the environment, from the About.com expert Geography GuideSite.
An overview of transportation geography, the field of geography which studies various forms of transportation and their movement across the earth, from the expert About.com Geography GuideSite.
A clear and concise overview of the subject of urban geography, a part of the human geography discipline. Learn all about urban geography from this article on the About.com Geography GuideSite.
High speed trains are an effective and fast transportation system for medium distance commute travel between metropolitan areas or within a region such as Europe. Learn all about high speed trains from this expert About.com Geography GuideSite article.
Every morning, millions of people around the world enjoy a cup of coffee to get a jump start on their day. Learn about the geography of coffee, from Geography at About.com
New Urbanism is an urban planning and design movement that began in the United States in the early 1980s. The goals of New Urbanism are to reduce dependence on the car, and to create livable and walkable, neighborhoods with a densely packed array of housing, jobs and commercial sites. Learn all about New Urbanism from this overview on the Geography site about About.com.
An overview of zoning law and city planning in the United States.
Discover the practical model for agricultural land use surrounding a city, the Von Thunen Model, from your About.com Guide to Geography.
Cities are much warmer than their surrounding countryside due to the phenomena known as Urban Heat Islands. Discover how to combat the heat of the city, from your About.com Guide to Geography.
Guest columnist Brett J. Lucas explores the geographic relationship of passenger rail, from short-haul to long-haul passenger train routes.
An overview of the history, growth, and development of suburbs.
An overview of slash and burn agriculture, used by subsistence farmers to provide temporary fertility to the soil by burning plants. This slash and burn overview is from the About.com expert Geography site.
The terms site and situation are used in the field of geography to help us understand why a city is located where it is located. Learn about these basic geographic concepts of site and situation.
An overview of the primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, and even quinary sectors of the economy, from your About.com Guide to Geography. These sectors of the economy can divide all economic activities of a country into five categories.
Learn about law of primate cities and the rank-size rule of urban geography, from your About.com Guide to Geography.
Petroleum geography is the specialized branch of geography that explores the location of petroleum resources and their geographic distribution. Learn about petroleum geography from this About.com geography article.
Over a million Mexican workers are employed at over three thousand maquiladoras, or export assembly plants, near the United States-Mexico border. Learn about these factories that produce goods for the U.S.A.
Abraham Levitt and his sons had the greatest impact on U.S. postwar housing through the construction of their three Levittowns, which resulted in over 140,000 homes. Learn about Levittown from your About.com Guide to Geography.
Learn about land-use planning from this overview of the topic from the About.com Geography site.
A brief history and overview of the United States interstate highway system, from your About.com Guide to Geography.
An overview of historic preservation, the effort to protect historic buildings from destruction, from the About.com expert Geography site.
Learn about the controversial topic of gentrification and its impact on the urban areas as wealthy individuals move into inner cities and gentrify the neighborhoods.
An overview of garden cities, also known as greenbelt cities in the United States. Learn about these 20th century fully functioning master planned communities.
The Erie Canal was the nation's first major transportation system. It allowed goods to be shipped to and from New York City and the Upper Midwest, starting the migration that created the USA as we know it today.
Learn about the phenomenon of edge cities, developed by Joel Garreau, on the outskirts of major metropolitan areas.
The Columbian Exposition was the World's Fair of 1893. Held in Chicago, it showcased many great inventions of the late 19th century. Learn all about the Columbian Exposition from Geography at About.com.
Learn about the City Beautiful Movement of the late 19th century and early 20th century that established the foundations of urban planning and development. From your About.com Guide to Geography.
The geography of the circulation of newspapers reveals interesting geographic features, from your About.com Guide to Geography.
The About.com Geography Site provides this easy-to-understand overview of Central Place Theory, from contributing writer Amanda Briney.
The CBD or Central Business District is focal point of a city. It is the commercial and office center of the city and usually is the center point for transportation networks.
A comprehensive listing of the world's busiest airports, from your About.com Guide to Geography. The list of the top thirty busiest airports in the world.
A basic overview of the fastest trains in the world, from your About.com Guide to Geography.
Learn about the country's largest city in area, from your About.com Guide to Geography.
Explore the geography of agriculture from the domestication of plants and animals to commercial agriculture, from your About.com Guide to Geography.
Find out why we can't compare countries based on their percentage of urbanized populations.
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.
A look at the development of the modern grocery store and supermarket.
Your Guide is stricken by the dreaded Mallaise. Learn how not to get it.
Geographer Jean Gottmann defined the area from Boston to Washington as one huge urban area. Learn what he meant in lumping the area as one.
A listing of the fifteen largest metropolitan areas in the world are huge and always growing.
The Pacific Rim includes countries bordering the Pacific Ocean from North and South America to Asia to Oceania. Most of these countries have experienced major economic change and growth to become components of an economically integrated trade region. Raw material and finished goods are shipped between Pacific Rim states for manufacture, packaging, and sale. Four of the Pacific Rim territories have been called "Economic Tigers" due to their aggressive economies.
San Diego's downtown mall has transformed the Central Business District.
