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The Graduate School of Geography offers programs for both undergraduate and graduate study. Areas of focus include nature and society; globalization, cities and development; earth system science and geographic information science (GIS).
"...if you want to be a geographer...be the best. Take your graduate work at this school in Worcester, Massachusetts, Clark University." —Texas, James Michener, 1985, p. 504. |
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Globalization, Cities, and Development
The urban-economic faculty at Clark (Professors Angel, Aoyama, Hanson,
Martin, Murphy, and Peet) have diverse, complementary, intersecting interests that generate an exciting learning environment.
Three core areas describe the Clark urban-economic program:
- Development, especially theories and discourses of economic development;
- Economies, especially contemporary shifts and emerging economic processes at regional, national, and international scales;
- Cities, especially the social, cultural, and political aspects of urban life.
Each faculty member has core expertise in one of these areas, with interests and experience that extend to at least one of the others. In addition, faculty in this group pursue cross-cutting themes that link to other faculty clusters at Clark, as with Nature-Society. At the moment key themes of study are global economic change; regulation, policy, and governance; gender; and environmental quality.
The urban-economic faculty at Clark embrace a diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches, ranging from feminist theory to Marxism, from in-depth interviews to archival work, and from quantitative to qualitative analyses.
These synergies mean that much of our current work takes place at the boundaries and interstices between the three core areas. Current faculty research focuses on these questions:
- What are the tools in economic geography that enable us to better understand global economic change?
- How does the shift from Atlantic to Pacific-centered global trade affect regional economies?
- What are the strategies to balance environmental consequences of rapid industrialization?
- How does political ideology affect economic regulation and policy?
- How does feminist theory contribute to better understandings of urban life?
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Students from the GEOG 280: Urban Ecology class go canoeing on the Bronx River. Students learned how the local community has been disconnected from the river and how the The Hunts Point Community Development Center is hoping to facilitate greater use of the river and its shores.
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