Unit 6-Urbanization

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  • Urbanization: the process of development of dense concentrations of people into settlements
  • Urban Area: A city and its surroundin subburbs
  • Metropolitan area: a city and surrounding areas that are economically influenced by the city
  • Site: where the city is located and built
  • Situation: The cities connection to their site and other sites
  • Favorable topograph, natural resource, trade locations, and defendable land attract people to certain sites.
  • Improvements in a city’s situation could change over time as new tech lessen the impact of old connection.
  • People choose to move for safety, job opportunities, school and healthcare.
  • People are often drawn to suburbanization by low crime, good schools, and cheep homes.
  • Urban Sprawl: urban areas expand in uncontrolled ways and take up a lot of land.
  • Edge City: a community located on the outskirts of a city.
  • Boomburd: a suburb with rapid growth into a large sprawling city with over 100,000 residents.
  • Exurb: fast growing community outside of an edge city or metropolitan area where where residents are closely connected to the central city and suburbs.
  • Infill: redevelopment that identifies vacant land within previously built areas; helps to redevelop the spaces and make space.
  • Megacities: city with over 10,000,000 resident.
  • Metacities: city with over 20,000,000 residents.
  • World cities: cities with influence around the globe.
  • World cities play a big role in the world’s economy, social, and information flows and serve as focal point for world systems.
  • World cities birth new ideas, goods and services.
  • World cities hold large events(Olympics) and have many tourist attractions to attract people.
  • Cities function under heirchy system, where cities with large populations are high on the scale and cities with smaller populations are low on the scale.
  • Gravity model states that a cities influence is based on size.
  • Gravity Model assumes that the interaction of people and goods between cities are proportional to the output of goods and distance between them.
  • Rank-size Rule says that the places people live are linked to form interconnected independent urban systems.
  • Rank-size Rule: a geographic concept that describes how the population size in cities within a country may be distributed.(1/N)
  • Rank-size rule examples: Libya, Nigeria, Australia, and Brazil.
  • Primate city: a city that exceeds in population size and influence(doesn’t fallow the Rank-size rule).
  • Primate City examples: Mexico, France, Thailan, and Tokyo.
  • Central Place Theory: describes a central place as a settlement that provides goods and services for the surrounding area.
  • Threshold: the number of people needed to support a certain good or service.
  • Range: The distance someone is willing to travel for goods and services.
  • High-order Goods
    Luxury cars, high-ended fashion, and works of art.
  • High-order services
    Sports events, museums, and culture festivals
  • Low-order Goods
    Grocery stores and common stores
  • Low-order Services
    Hair salons and Post offices
  • Range “theory” doesn’t account for real world geography or town distribution
    from cities.
  • Burgess Conetric-Zone Model
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  • Burgess Conetric- Zone Model explains basic arrangements in cities such as Chicago and Philadelphia.
  • Burgess Conetric-Zone Model says that as you move away from the CBD of a city, land value and land use decreases and population becomes less dense.
  • Hoyt Sector Model
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