Editing Urban geography (section)

==Research interest==
Urban geographers are primarily concerned with the ways in which cities and towns are constructed, governed and experienced. Alongside neighboring disciplines such as [[urban anthropology]], [[urban planning]] and [[urban sociology]], urban geography mostly investigates the impact of urban processes on the earth's surface's social and physical structures. Urban geographical research can be part of both [[human geography]] and [[physical geography]].

The two fundamental aspects of cities and towns, from the geographic perspective are:<ref>Carter (1995), p. 5–7. "[...] the two main themes of study introduced at the outset: the town as a distributed feature and the town as a feature with internal structure, or in other words, the town ''in'' area and the town ''as'' area."</ref>
# Location ("systems of cities"): spatial distribution and the complex patterns of movement, flows and linkages that bind them in space; and 
# [[Urban structure]] ("cities as systems"): study of patterns of distribution and interaction within cities, from quantitative, qualitative, structural, and behavioral perspectives.