Session on Week 5

Reading

“The Search for the Future Inside Ourselves – Life on the New Frontier” (html). Chapter 1 in “Edge city: Life on the New Frontier”, by Joel Garreau (1991).

Questions to discuss:

• How does the writing style compare with the previous texts we have read?
• How is the issue of the spatial structure of a city related to geography? And to economics?

Essay feedback

• Stylized facts
  • No “space” or “location” to define Geography, however some “scarcity” for economics
  • Some did attempt to define the disciplines before discussing differences and similarities
  • However, very few (none) used those definitions to elaborate in a similarly conceptual way about them
  • Instead, it was very common to go to examples to try to discuss differences and similarities
  • Examples are good to make a concept more approachable, but they are only powerful when such concept is clear and has been discussed in some detail before (or after) in the text
  • References
• Specific questions from students and areas they would like me to ellaborate