Geography 12: Cultural Geography
Examines humankind’s relationship with the environment using multidisciplinary perspectives and techniques. Historical and contemporary patterns of cultural-enviro adaptations, the landscape of cultural diversity, demography and mobility, political organization, the process of urbanization, and economic organization will be emphasized.
Transfer: UC/CSU. IGETC 4E; CSU-GE D5. C-ID: GEOG 120.
Geography 12: Syllabus
Geography 12: Exam Questions
RESOURCES FOR GEOGRAPHY 12
ARTICLES
WEB LINKS
A New Map for America By Parag Khanna (The New York Times)
A 'Whom Do You Hang With?' Map of America By Robert Krulwich
American Vice: Mapping the 7 Deadly Sins
Americans on the Move By Drew Desilver (PEW Research)
Artful, Aerial Views of Humanity’s Impact By Jonathan Blaustein
Bike-Sharing Programs Hit the Streets in Over 500 Cities Worldwide By Janet Larsen
Blotting — Not Squatting — In Detroit Neighborhoods By Kate Davidson (NPR)
Can Mass Transit Solve City Sprawl? (Science Friday)
Counter Mapping By Adam Loften & Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee (Emergence Magazine)
Enjoying the Low Life? By Nicholas Kristof (The New York Times)
Floating Sheep
Food Access Research Atlas - USDA
Girls Lead in Science Exam, but Not in the United States By Hannah Fairfield
How Different Cultures Handle Personal Space By NPR Staff, Leila Fadel, and Lourdes Garcia-Navarro (NPR)
How Do You Build a Healthy City? Copenhagen Reveals Its Secrets By Sarah Boseley (The Guardian)
How the North Ended Up on Top of the Map By Nick Danforth (Aljazeera America)
How the West Overcounts Its Water Supplies By Abrahm Lustgarten (The New York Times)
How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk
Inequality, Unbelievably, Gets Worse By Steven Rattner (The New York Times)
International Migrant Population by Country of Origin and Destination
Jim Russel (geographer) -- articles at Pacific Standard on the relationship between migration and economic development.
Native cartography: a bold mapmaking project that challenges Western notions of place (Aeon)
New Exhibit Displays Dozens Of Indigenous Maps From 16th Century Mexico By Wade Goodwyn (Here & Now)
Portland Will Still Be Cool, but Anchorage May Be the Place to Be: On a Warmer Planet, Which Cities Will Be Safest? By Jennifer A. Kingson (The New York Times)
Sky-High Vegetables: Vertical Farming Sprouts In Singapore By Michaeleen Doucleff
The Age of Humans: Living in the Anthropocene (Special Report from the Smithsonian -- especially see articles about cities)
The curious map that survived 700 years Video by Chris Griffiths and Thomas Buttery (BBC)
The Geography Of Fame By Seth Stephens-Davidowitz (The New York Times)
The Global Flow of People By Nikola Sander, Guy J. Abel, and Ramon Bauer
The Luckiest Nut in the World (YouTube)
The New World By Frank Jacobs and Parag Khanna
The North-South Divide on Two-Parent Families By David Leonhardt (The New York Times)
These are all the world's major religions in one map By Frank Jacobs (Big Think)
The Secret Ingredient of Resilient Cities: Culture By Tanvi Misra (City Lab)
This Architect Has Painstakingly Standardized the World's Subway Maps By Jenny Xie (City Lab: The Atlantic)
Trump Says the U.S. Is ‘Full.’ Much of the Nation Has the Opposite Problem. By Neil Irwin and Emily Badger (The New York Times)
Where Do Borders Need to Be Redrawn? (The New York Times)
Worldmapper