The Importance Of Urban Geography: The Model City

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There are many definitions that refer to the term geography. You can take the technical term straight from a geography textbook that says, “Physical geography is the study of spatial distributions of phenomena across the landscape, processes that created and changed those distributions, and implications for those distributions on people.” While physical geography refers to the geography of the land, urban geography refers to the geography of the city. By definition urban geography is, “the sub-discipline of geography which concentrates on those parts of the Earth’s surface that have a high concentration of buildings and infrastructure.” Geography is not only a natural science though; it is a social science as well. When building a city and …show more content…

It should not be something that cities aspire to be; they should aspire to be greater. A city should not be composed of forces that do not value the beauty that is life, whether it is human life or the all-encompassing natural life. While the foundation of a city can be perfect in theory it is not until the ideologies and the actions within the city match that perfection that the city can or should be considered, “The Model City”. Why would one aspire to live in a city where the people and their environment are being poisoned decade after decade? How could someone pride himself or herself in knowing that they live in a city that treats those that are impoverished or of a darker skin color like human test subjects, whose lives are not of value other than to work for the factories? The factories that are not only aiding in the social injustices that are occurring, but are the ones poisoning the land, air, and water that these people live off of. The land, air, and water that once brought great pride to this city and where part of it receiving the title of “The Model City”. The land and the people were being exploited for all that they possessed by the manipulative forces that existed in this town, that stripped them of all the things that they could have taken pride in in the city that they call home. There is nothing model about a city that promotes structural violence, no matter how structurally sound it may

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