Urban air pollution. Squatter settlements. Local Urban Enviroments. London. Multiculturalism. Megacities. Mumbai and LIC. Gentrification. Urban Environments. Manchester. Theconversation. When we parachute into a city, whether for work or leisure, we are more sensitive to contrasts between the familiar places we leave behind and the new places we encounter.
When I travelled from my home near Fremantle in Western Australia for a three-week stint living in Richmond and working at Deakin University, I admired the rich intensity of Victoria Street and noted how the odd junctures in the grid street pattern created a maze like a children’s puzzle played by adults in sedans. However, the feature that struck me the most was the contrast between old and new Richmond. Even without my experience teaching and researching about heritage and landscape, the effects of Melbourne’s property price boom would be painfully obvious.
I found the vast differences between the older and newer properties jarring.
Getting To The Core Of Global Health In 2017. Overview of Political Geography. Political geography is a branch of human geography (the branch of geography concerned with understanding the world's culture and how it relates to geographic space) that studies the spatial distribution of political processes and how these processes are impacted by ones geographic location.
It often studies local and national elections, international relationships and the political structure of different areas based on geography. History of Political Geography. Urban Geography Research Group.