Urban Geography Urban geography is an area that has experienced great growth over the last fifty years because the development process has concentrated people in cities. Cities are the environment most live in, and if they do not, they will. Teaching urban geography can be easy or hard.
Many teachers can look out the window, rural teachers have a harder time.
This is an area where seeing is very important, but it must be guided seeing. To most people cities seem to have little more than a basic structure. They seem to be just where people built things and lack any theoretical base. Urban geographers have a number of models that explain exactly what has gone on. This has become a part of the more problem-solving field of urban planning.