Extra Credit & Personal Enrichment Opportunity Santiago Jimenez Jr. Accordionist and singer Santiago...

Extra Credit & Personal Enrichment Opportunity

Santiago Jimenez Jr.

Accordionist and singer Santiago Jiménez, Jr.

An Evening of Tex-Mex Conjunto Music

Monday, November 6 / 8 p.m. / UCSB Campbell Hall /

FREE

Accordionist, singer and champion of the old-style

conjunto music of his father, the legendary Don Santiago

Jiménez, Santiago Jiménez, Jr. will perform and discuss

compositions, from polkas to rancheras, by his father. The

lecture-demonstration will be introduced and accompanied

by bassist José Reyna. Part of the series Visions from the

Heart.

http://www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu/lecture.htm

What is urban geography?

• Study of how cities function, their internal systems and structure, and the external influences on them..

• Variation among cities: internal and external relationships.

• Key concepts & trends:

– Agglomeration: clustering for mutual advantage

– Specialization: mfg. Product associated with cities (Sheffield, Milwaukee)

– W. Europe:1800, 20% 2000, 75%

– World: 1800, 3% 2000, 55%

Urban Geography: Urbanization and Location

Urban hierarchy and typology

• hamlet: a few 100 people, limited services or functions

• village: several dozen services

• town: services with more specialization; hinterland

• city: higher specialization; larger hinterland; CBD and centrality

• megalopolis: linked, proximate metropolitan areas (Eastern seaboard)

• reach: range of attraction to the city

• centrality: economic power relative to competing cities.


Place and Location: Situation

• Ex. Schenzhen near border of Hong Kong

• Profits from its relative location

• Situation can change over time

– Chicago: first nature and second nature.

– Northeastern manufacturing belt in U.S.


Place and Location: Urban Site

• Physical qualities of the place a city occupies (Chicago, Paris)

• Mexico City

– Mountain flanked basin

– On dry lake bed (water shortage)

– vulnerability to earthquakes

– trapped air pollution (L.A., Athens)

• Bangkok, Thailand: sinking due to pumping water

• Mayan ruins research at UCSB Geography/Anthropology


• Region containing known Maya Archaeological sites

• Northernmost extent of the tropical rain forest

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Urban Geography: Site and Situation in Ancient Mayan Settlements

Current UCSB Research:

Keith Clarke, Anabell Ford, and Jorge Sifuentes

Tikal

• Largest Archaeological site in the region

• More than 85 courtyard plazas (~150 ha)

• Majority of structures still covered by forest


Belize River Area and Core Petén

• Tikal. ~ 150 ha• Naranjo (SE) ~ 75 ha• Uaxactún (N) ~ 50 ha• Yaxhá (SE) ~ 50 ha• El Pilar (E) ~ 50 ha • Seats of power over

vast populations• Control rested primarily

in the proper management of the resource area


Land Resources in Order of Productivity• 1. Well drained ridges – unevenly distributed across

the region, implying dispersed settlement patterns with a hierarchy in population and area.

• 2. Poorly drained lowlands.• 3. Riverine-associated swamps.• 4. Non-productive depression swamps.

• Drinking water is not readily available in interior Petén, today’s sources are reservoirs designed and constructed by the Maya.


Hypothesized settlement growth and centralization animation


Hypothesized settlement rank size and centralization order


Von Thunen’s Agricultural Land Use Model:

1. Isolated state

2. Single market at center

3. Market price, p, same for all producers of a given crop

4. Featureless plain

5. Yield per unit acre same everywhere

6. Transportation costs are proportional to distance and invariant to direction

7. Farmers maximize profits

Rural Geography (Ch.14 pp. 199-201)

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