1. Urban Geography
An introduction

2. What is urban geography?
It can be the study of where cities are in a country, of how cities and towns relate to each other, or of how people are distributed within a city.

3. What is urban geography?
Urban geography is the study of areas which have a high concentration of buildings, infrastructure and economic activity as well as a high population density.
It can be considered a part of the larger field of human geography, however, it can often overlap with other fields such as anthropology and physical geography.

4. As a geographer…
Urban geographers seek to understand why cities are where they are, what function they serve, the hierarchy that exists between them and why they develop with the form that they have.
Urban geography also involves planning city expansion and improvements while taking into account the human and environmental impacts of the change.

5. What are our major concerns?
Location
Space
Size
Function
Structure
Composition
problems
Of urban centres
Of urban population

6. Many urban geographies 
There is no one approach to studying urban spaces
Analytical approach
Build models and analyze data
Behavioral
Spatial analysis with a focus on how individuals make spatial decisions
Marxist
With their interest in contradictions, the focus here is spatial contradictions
Humanistic
Urban cultural geography
Postmodernist
Largely anti-spatial analysis
Recognize that there is no one way to interpret space
In this class, we do not have any one way 

7. Sub fields of Urban Geography
Cultural Geography
Population Geography
Political Geography
Economic Geography
Medical Geography
Historical Geography
Social Geography
URBAN GEOGRAPHY
Anthropology
Demography
Political Science
Urban planning
Economics
Medicine and Health
History
Sociology

8. Look out to discover more!