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Suzanne D Withers
GEOG 445
Seattle Campus
Focuses on the geography of housing, especially in the United States. Topics include: the American dream of home ownership; housing affordability and differential access to home ownership; homelessness; the history of public housing; hosing demography; residential mobility and neighborhood change, and discrimination in the housing market. Offered: Sp.
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The geographic distribution of population a) Population data and maps; b) Settlement in relation to environment (international to local scales); c) Settlement in relation to economic & cultural development & technology, including considerations of urbanization and population distribution and transition theory. Geographic variation in population characteristics. a) race, language, religion, ethnicity; b) fertility and morality; family size and structure; change in these characteristics; c) levels of well-being; d) regionalization of population characteristics
Population redistribution and migration. a) international migration (emigration, immigration); b) internal migration/mobility (including typologies); c) local migration (as intraurban mobility); d) geographic impact of migration; e) theories and models of migration--economic, social, geographic, environmental forces. Population growth and change. a) population change (growth and decline); b) role of fertility, mortality, migration; c) population estimation and forecasting.
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