Various frameworks and models are developed and applied to the core of economic geography, the subsystem of agriculture, manufacturing, tertiary activities, and transportation. An analysis of the structure of urban and rural areas with particular emphasis on the description, patterns and trends in land use. Methods for defining, representing and evaluating land use are developed. Explanations of land use patterns are incorporated. The effects of physical features and spatial economic organization upon the selection of locations for industrial and commercial activities.
Attention is given both to regional position and to local site.
The distributive trades of retailing and related wholesaling and service activities. Spatial patterns of consumer catchment areas and the business centers within which they are located will be emphasized. This course provides an analysis of different methods and techniques of representing geographic data through the use of various manual and computer-based technologies. The focus is upon the processes involved in the collection, compilation, and display of geographic data within a data base. A systematic development of regionalism as a geographic concept emphasizing the regional concept as it evolved from area studies to regional science particularly as it applies to planning.