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. Many urban geographers work within urban planning frameworks. Here we want to take a look at Minnespolis-St. We are looking at the models and providing a tour of their reality. These notes are for use in courses at Mayville State University, Mayville, North Dakota.