Human Geography

Key Question #4 How do people shape cities? People and institutions shape places, and there is no exception to this rule. The role of individual people, governments, corporations, developers, financial lenders, and relator's play in shaping cities varies across the world. Government planning agencies can directly affect the layout of cities by restricting the kinds of development allowed in certain regions or zones of cities Vocabulary Zoning laws- legal restrictions on land use that determines what types of buildings and economic activities are allowed to take place in certain areas Redlining- discriminatory real estate practice in N America in which members of minority groups are prevented from obtaining money to purchase homes/properties in predominantly white neighborhoods

Chapter 8 Key Question 1 Key Question 1 How is space politically organized into states and nations? Political geography is the study of how people have organized Earth?s land surface into countries and alliances, reasons underlying the observed arrangements, and the conflicts that result from the organization. A state is politically organized territory. Sovereignty is political & military power. Territorial integrity is the right to defend borders. Territoriality is the attempt by an individual of group to affect, influence or control people, phenomena, and relationships, by delimiting and asserting control over a geographic area but not necessarily with conflict. Vocabulary

Sydney White AP HUG P 3 Key Question 4 How is agriculture currently organized geographically, and how has agribusiness influenced the contemporary geography of agriculture?

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