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Social geography is the branch of human geography that is interested in the relationships between society and space, and is most closely related to social theory in general and sociology in particular, dealing with the relation of social phenomena and its spatial components.
Urban social geography is a sub-field within human geography, looking at the factors within an urban environment that affect human relationships on social, economic and political levels. Those human relationships then feed back into the factors which then shape dynamics of the actual city itself.
Original mapping by John Snow showing the clusters of cholera cases in the London epidemic of 1854, which is a classical case of using human geography. Human geography or anthropogeography is the branch of geography which studies spatial relationships between human communities, cultures, economies, and their interactions with the environment, examples of which include urban sprawl and urban ...
Urban sociology is the sociological study of cities and urban life. One of the field’s oldest sub-disciplines, urban sociology studies and examines the social, historical, political, cultural, economic, and environmental forces that have shaped urban environments.
Carl Ritter (1779–1859), considered to be one of the founders of modern geography and first chair in geography at the Humboldt University of Berlin, also noted for his use of organic analogy in his works. [1] Xavier Hommaire de Hell (1812–1848), research in Turkey, southern Russia and Persia
In North America, community studies drew inspiration from the classic urban sociology texts produced by the Chicago School, such as the works of Louis Wirth and William Foote Whyte. In Britain , community studies was developed for colonial administrators working in East Africa, particularly Kenya .
As co-editor in chief (together with Anthony Giddens) he founded the first open access journal (Copernicus Publications) in geography on »Social Geography« (2004–2013), since 2004 he is the editor of the book series Social Geographical Library (Sozialgeographische Bibliothek, Steiner Verlag), since 2016 the editor of the »SpringerBriefs in ...
McGees' major academic work has mainly been in the following areas: the geography of Southeast Asian cities; the informal economy in developing countries; systems of food distribution in developing countries' cities; the emergence of extended metropolitan regions. rural-urban migration [1]