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This publication contains nine articles intended to enhance teachers' understanding of urban geography. The articles are reprinted from issues of the 1969 volume of the Journal of Geography. Urban studies has been one of the most rapidly developing fields of geography during the post World War II generation. There has been extensive research and interest in the phenomena of cities and metropolitan areas. In this, geography has shared with other social sciences many common concepts and methods, but has contributed a distinctive set of viewpoints and a unique focus: the organization of man's use of space and resources in the developing and functioning of urban settlements. Research in urban geography has contributed to man's understanding of the complex of interrelated urban phenomena. In addition, geographic concepts and viewpoints have had substantial practical application in city and metropolitan planning. Some of these geographic concepts and contributions to urban studies are examined in articles focusing on external relations of cities, form and structure of cities, land use and density patterns of cities, origin and pattern of development of urban black social areas, transportation, and the future and planning of cities. (Author/RM)

This resource paper on urban geography is part of a series designed to supplement undergraduate geography courses. It sets forth some of the principles of urban geography with special reference to form development and land uses within cities. Chapter one examines the legal, administrative, population, dentistry, and functional definitions of a city. Chapter two describes world patterns of urban growth throughout history and in the United States. Chapter three examines theories of urban centralization and decentralization including the gravity and potential models, concentric zonal model, wedge or sector model, multiple nuclei model, and site rentals and transport costs theories. Chapter four reviews the changing patterns of urban growth including the era of mass transportation dominance, the era of the automobile, and the spatial forms of urban growth. Chapter five examines theories behind metropolitan expansion, intermetropolitan coalescence, and urban regional planning. Chapter six reviews the spatial patterns of integration and segregation in the inner city emphasizing the neighborhood school, mobility, and processes of integration. (Author/DE)