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Geography concepts and topics:


 * Acculturation
 * Agglomeration theory
 * Agricultural revolution
 * Behavioral geography
 * Boundary
 * Carrying capacity
 * Core-periphery
 * Central business district
 * Central place theory
 * City block (and superblock)
 * Cultural geography
 * Demographic transition
 * Distance
 * Economic base theory
 * Economic development
 * Economic geography
 * Economic rent
 * Economies of scale
 * Ecosystem
 * Enclave
 * Exurb
 * Frontier
 * Gentrification
 * Geopolitics
 * Gerrymander
 * Ghetto
 * Gravity model
 * Heartland
 * Infrastructure
 * Journey to work
 * Landscape
 * Land use
 * Location
 * Location theory
 * Mental maps
 * Migration
 * Model
 * Modernization
 * Natural hazard
 * Natural resource
 * Paradigm
 * Plantation
 * Political geography
 * Population density
 * Population geography
 * Population pyramid
 * Region
 * Rimland
 * Scale
 * Sector theory
 * Sense of place
 * Social change
 * Spatial analysis
 * Spatial diffusion
 * Spatial interaction
 * State
 * Suburb
 * System
 * Territoriality
 * Urban geography
 * Urbanization
 * Urban planning

Theory
Theoretical approaches include:
 * Feminism - How gender relations have played to the advantage of men rather than women. In geography, space may have been crucial to maintain this structure. - Donna Haraway,Bell Hooks, Doreen Massey, Gillian Rose, Iris Marion Young
 * Marxism - Based on ideas from Karl Marx, sesks to expose injustices caused by capitalism - Mike Davis, David Harvey, Henri Lefebvre, Doreen Massey, Neil Smith, Edward Soja, Peter Taylor, Immanual Wallerstein
 * Positivism - Universal laws and explanations can be developed through an objective and independent scientific approach. Brian Berry, Peter Haggett, David Harvey
 * Poststructural - The role of language in the construction of knowledge, with language helping to give stability - Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault
 * Postcolonial - Legacy of the colonial era on former colonies - Homi Bhabha, Derek Gregory, Bell Hooks, Gearoid O Tuathail (Gerard Toal), Edward Said, Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak
 * Postmodernism - Breakdown of order, rationality, and progress, postmodern times are fluid and flexible.Jean Baudrillard, Mike Davis, Michael Dear, David Harvey, David Ley, Edward Soja
 * Subaltern - Bell Hooks, Gayatri Chakrovorty Spivak