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  2. Human geography - Wikipedia

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    Original mapping by John Snow showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854, which is a classical case of using human geography. Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment, examples of which include urban sprawl and urban ...

  3. Central place theory - Wikipedia

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    The larger the settlements are in size, the fewer in number they will be, i.e. there are many small villages, but few large cities. The larger the settlements grow in size, the greater the distance between them, i.e. villages are usually found close together, while cities are spaced much further apart.

  4. Urban morphology - Wikipedia

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    The plan on the right of the series shows the latest state (1958) of the urban structure of the S. Bartolomio block. Three successive plans offer a retrospective periodization of the phases of the formation of the urban structure. The Italian school centres around the work of Saverio Muratori and dates from the 1940s. Muratori attempted to ...

  5. Five themes of geography - Wikipedia

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    In 1992, a National Assessment of Educational Progress consensus group said that the five themes are useful for teaching, but that for assessment, geography should be divided into the three topics of "space and place", "environment and society", and "spatial dynamic and connections". [1]

  6. Gravity model of migration - Wikipedia

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    The gravity model of migration is a model in urban geography derived from Newton's law of gravity, and used to predict the degree of migration interaction between two places. [1] In 1941, astrophysicist John Q. Stewart [2] applied Newton's law to the social sciences, establishing a theoretical foundation for the field of social physics. He ...

  7. These 3 cities were voted 'best in the world' - AOL

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    Ask people around the world where they would like to live or visit, and they will likely answer one of these three cities.

  8. Integrated geography - Wikipedia

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    Rice terraces located in Mù Cang Chải district, Yên Bái province, Vietnam Integrated geography (also referred to as integrative geography, [1] environmental geography or human–environment geography) is where the branches of human geography and physical geography overlap to describe and explain the spatial aspects of interactions between human individuals or societies and their natural ...

  9. 3D city model - Wikipedia

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    The 3D model of Berlin allows viewers to look at the city as it is now, as it once was, and as the city might turn into in the future. A 3D city model is digital model of urban areas that represent terrain surfaces, sites, buildings, vegetation, infrastructure and landscape elements in three-dimensional scale as well as related objects (e.g., city furniture) belonging to urban areas.