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Caught In Geog

Caught in Geog is a pretty comprehensive for your H1/H2 Geography needs. Summaries, essay outlines, case studies etc. for your perusal. Kudos to Stacy for setting this up, and for sharing your work!

Add comment February 1, 2009

Urban Transport

A one page summary on urban transport problems, causes and solutions

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Add comment October 8, 2007

L3s: Urban Geography

Updated: 07/10/07
Changelog: Added in a section for urban transport

Examples to use for Urban Geog to get your L3 marks! I’m sure there are much more, but these are the ones that I could find, but if you think there’s something really worth adding in here, do leave a comment!

I need to make a qualifier here. Manila may or may not be primate, depending on how you look at it. The fact remains that Manila City is not the largest in Philippines; rather, that honour goes to Quezon City, with Manila trailing a far second.

This stems from the fact that the Philippines has a rather confusing way of dividing their country into regions, provinces, cities, municipalities and barangays. That said, it is the National Capital Regions (NCR) – also known as the Manila Metro, or, simply, Manila (without ”city”) - that is primate so Manila (not the city) is, may be considered a “primate region” – that, of course, depending on what you’re comparing it to. It’s primate compared to the next city outside the NCR – but that confuses us even more because the NCR is home to around 11.3 million people. The next largest region is CALABARZON which is home to some 9.3 million people. Simple math would tell you that 11.3 million is barely twice 9.3 million. So is Manila primate? Your call.

My opinion? Use Bangkok as an example. It’s some 21 times larger than the next largest city, Nonthaburi. Can’t go wrong there.

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9 comments September 30, 2007

Urban/Population Geography Summaries

by Pear Reimin (more notes over at her site)

Update: Population geography notes now in .zip format. If anyone has any idea why the original .doc is a whopping 2mb large, do tell me. If it helps, I converted it from a .docx. Leave a comment if you have any ideas, thanks!

These files are rather huge and amount to around 30 pages each. But they provide excellent overviews if you haven’t studied these two topics of human geography at all. ;)

Population Geography [.zip] (119kb)
Urban Geography (202kb)

4 comments September 9, 2007