Explain the scope and significance of urban geography.
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Urban geography is the study of urban places with reference to their geographical environment. Broadly speaking, the subject matter includes origin of towns, their growth and development, their functions in and around their surroundings.
The subject of urban geography has gradually taken a special place among the various branches of geography in the period after the Second World War in various foreign and Indian universities and colleges. With the increase of population globally, towns and cities have become magnets of economic, social and political processes.
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The changes brought about by these processes have become instructive as well as interesting too in case of the single phenomenon, i.e., city in a spatial context. Under these circumstances, the studies of towns and cities have formed an essential part of the branch of Human Geography.