Guia docente 2015_16
Facultade de Historia
Grao en Xeografía e Historia
 Subjects
  Geography: Basics of human geography
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. Look, think and analyse the territory 1.1. The Geography like science. Evolution of the Human Geography: of the description to the scientific method. The space like social product.
1.2. The key concepts *articuladores of the modern Geography. You relate human being-half, space, region, landscape.
1.3. The observation of the territory: the problem of the geographic scales and levels of space analysis
2. You relate them society-half. 2.1. The concept of ecosystem and the half natural world-wide.
2.2. The study of the populations. The sources of demographic analysis and his interpretation. Demographic dynamics and structure of the population. The models of demographic transition. The migratory movements
2.3. The growth of the population and the demographic politics. The uneven distribution of the population, of the resources and of the activity
3. Rural spaces and urban spaces: complementarity and interdependence 3.1. The process of urbanisation. Stages in the urban development. Definition of city. Criteria and problems
3.2. The city like space. The concepts of location and situation. The value *geo-historical of the urban plane and analysis of some typologies of cities. The image of the city. Morphology and urban structure. The urban space like a social product. The problems of the cities
3.3. The rural spaces. The functionality of the rural means in the urban societies: heterogeneity, subordination and dependency
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