Foundations of Urbanization
The most prevalent explanation for the origin of early cities
The transition from food collection to agricultural production
This field of study draws from sociology, political science, anthropology, economics, and geography
What is Urban Studies?
A field of urban studies that explores natural resources and the city's location
What is urban geography
This was the purpose of early colonial North American cities
What is trade
This theory suggested that early cities developed out of food scarcity
What is population pressures
Urban studies is interested in these two concepts, which explores the lives of city residents and the process of urban growth
What is urbanism and urbanization
This city is described in Richard Henry Dana's classic "Two Years Before the Mast"
What is San Franscisco
During the timeframe, Northern Colonies in the Western Frontier barely passed the Hudson River
What is the Revolutionary War?
This is area of early urbanization was located along the Tigress, Euphrates, and the Nile
What is the Fertile Crescent
What is Urbanization
Many early sociologists had this view of the city
Shipbuilding was a major industry in this U.S. city
What is Baltimore
This area of early urbanization included the cities of Ur, Eridu, an Uruk
What is Mesopotamia
The process of city formation
What is urbanization
This sociological view understood the city as filled with multiple subjective truths and cannot be seen as objective
What is postmodernism
These two areas had the largest Black population following the Great Migration
This era experienced stagnate urbanization and the collapse of long-distance urbanization
What is the Dark Ages
What is a pedestrian city
According to Cities & Urban Life, to study the city means to
This was the primary cause of rural depopulation in the U.S. following the Civil War