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9/22/05: Introduction |
Handout: Economic concepts used in class
Handout: Census 2000 definitions of urban,
rural, metro, etc.
Additional resources:
ERS/USDA
Definition of rural |
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9/27/05: Defining exurbia |
Class Overheads
Some exurban pictures
Additional resources:
ERS/USDA
Rural-urban continuum codes
ERS/USDA Urban
influence codes
Ohio map of urban, suburban, exurban and rural, 1970-2000, is available at
the Exurban Change Project website:
http://aede.osu.edu/programs/exurbs/reportex4.htm |
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9/29/05: Historical patterns |
Class overheads: city formation, growth, location |
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10/4/05: Recent changes |
Class overheads: urban spatial
structure changes
Medina County maps
Additional resources:
ERS/USDA: Major Land Uses, 1997
ERS/USDA: Agricultural land use change
ERS/USDA: Urbanization and agricultural land
Exurban Change Project: Ohio
land use and population changes |
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10/11/05: Land rents, markets |
Class overheads: land markets,
values, land use decision making |
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10/13/05: Population decentralization |
Class overheads: population
decentralization, monocentric model |
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10/18/05: Household sorting |
Class overheads: 'flight from
blight' and household sorting |
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10/20/05: Firm decentralization |
Class overheads: firm
decentralization; role of IT |
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10/25/05: Transportation |
Class overheads: land use and
transportation
Reading questions
for Persky and Kurban |
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10/27/05: Federal policies |
Handwritten notes (distributed in class) |
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11/1/05: Globalization/rural restructuring |
Globalization overview |
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11/3/05: Natural amenities |
Class overheads: rural restructuring
and natural amenities
USDA Economic
Research Service: Report on population change and natural amenities (with
maps) |
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11/10/05: Midterm |
PLEASE NOTE CHANGE FROM SYLLABUS |
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11/15/05: Costs/benefits of sprawl |
Class overheads: "Costs of sprawl"
studies Reading
questions for next class |
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11/17/05: Impact on farmland |
Class overheads: urbanization and
agricultural adaptation |
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SATURDAY
11/19/05 |
REQUIRED: Class field trip. Meet at Ag Admin parking lot at 7:45AM |
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11/22/05: Role of government |
Class overheads: Role of government
and policy |
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11/29/05: Farmland preservation |
Class overheads: Economics of
farmland preservation |
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12/1/05: Growth controls |
Class overheads: Economics of urban
containment policies |