A BI-NATIONAL EXPERIMENT IN THE URBAN GEOGRAPHY AND PLANNING OF GUATEMALA

(pp. 1 - 9)

Clarence W. Minkel

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan

Abstract

In 1963 a project was initiated under a program between the Guatemalan government and the United States Agency for International Development (AID) to strengthen national planning in the Republic of Guatemala by providing it with a geographic orientation. Prior to that time there were no trained Guatemalan geographers, and national planning activities were based largely upon economic theory. Since, an increasingly broad base of support has been sought, and more than a dozen geographic studies have now been completed. This article describes the overall program in Guatemala, and particularly the urban aspects which provided its original orientation.

THE HANSA OF LONDON: A GEOGRAPHY

(pp. 10 - 13)

E. Frank Koller

Moorhead State College

Moorhead, Minnesota

Abstract

By the beginning of the twelfth century, the Flemish cloth industry had grown to such proportions that local supplies of wool could not adequately fill the demand. The conversion of many Flemish pastures from sheep to cattle grazing in the early twelfth century further complicated the local wool situation. Consequently, the Flemish cloth industry had no choice but to seek its wool supply elsewhere.

THE DETROIT MILKSHED IN NORTHEASTERN MICHIGAN

(pp. 14 - 18)

Lyle M. Langschwager

Central Michigan University

Mount Pleasant, Michigan

Abstract

The study treats the recent development of the northeastern Michigan portion of the Detroit Milkshed and determines its real limits. It traces the historical development of fluid milk production together with some of the economic aspects of farm production and transport which have resulted from recent urban demands for milk. Three recent periods are involved:

(1) The origin of the milkshed about 1952,

(2) The changing character of the milkshed from 1952 to 1966,

(3) The future economic prospects of the fluid milk production.

What is a milkshed? There is no exact geographic definition or connotation of a milkshed; no specific area usually is delineated. Apparently there are even minor milksheds within major milksheds, and apparently major milksheds overlap each other, according to Durand.

URBANISM INSTRUCTION WITHOUT TEXTBOOKS

(pp. 18 - 23)

Joseph W. Brownell

State University of New York, Cortland

Cortland, New York

Abstract

Practically all high school students have personal contact with some of the conditions and effects of urbanism. The proportion of urban population to rural population in Anglo-America totals approximately seventy per cent and each decade the percentage steadily rises. By the same token, some seventy per cent of our high school population resides in urban areas and it also grows in like manner. Of the remaining students, a sizeable proportion comprises origins of rural non-farm nature. Even many of those students whose homes are truly rural find themselves transported to an urban environment for the school day.