GEOGRAPHIC MODELS
I. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
II. Population
III. Cultural Patterns and Processes
IV. Political Geography
V. Agriculture and Rural Landscape
VI. Industry and Economic Development
VII. Urban Patterns
I. Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
- Diffusion models – expansion (contagious, hierarchical) and relocation
- Gravity model
II. Population
- Demographic Transition Model
- Lee’s Migration Model
- Ravenstein’s “Laws” of Migration
III. Cultural Patterns and Processes
- Core-domain-sphere model (D.W. Meinig)
- Sequent Occupance (Derwent Whittlesey)
IV. Political Geography
- Sea Power/Heartland/Rimland Theories (Mahan/Mackinder/Spykman)
- Organic state theory
V. Agriculture and Rural Landscape
- Von Thunen’s model of agriculture
- Boserup’s model of agricultural development
VI. Industry and Economic Development
- Weber’s model (of industrial location) (Least-cost theory)
- Rostow’s “modernization” model of development
- World Systems Theory (Wallerstein)
VII. Urban Patterns
- Models of North American cities (Concentric zone, Burgess - Sector model, Hoyt -Multiple nuclei, Harris and Ullman)
- Borchert’s Epochs of Urban Evolution
- “Galactic City” Model
- Model of a Latin America city (Griffen-Ford)
- Spatial arrangements and functional zones in urban areas of:
- Africa
- Southeast Asia
- Middle East
- Europe
- Central Place Theory (Christaller’s Model)
- Rank-size rule [and its corollary, Urban Primacy]