With over half of the world’s population living in urban spaces, cities matter. They produce, reflect, and amplify most of the dynamics, potential, and problems of global society. With planetary ...

Human geography first and foremost involves the study of human beings--more specifically, of the organization of human activity and of spatial patterns as they affect and, in turn, respond to the ...

Karen C. Seto, newly appointed as the Frederick C. Hixon Professor of Geography and Urbanization Science, focuses her research on the human transformation of land and the links between urbanization, ...

We are interested in global transformations and the human-level consequences that arise from them in different places. One strand of our research focuses on the social and spatial dimensions of ...