Urbanization: the process of development of dense concentrations of people into settlements
UrbanArea: A city and its surroundin subburbs
Metropolitanarea: a city and surroundingareas 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.
UrbanSprawl:urban areas expand in uncontrolled ways and take up a lot of land.
EdgeCity: 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.
Worldcities: 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 heirchysystem, where cities with large populations are high on the scale and cities with smaller populations are low on the scale.
Gravitymodel states that a cities influence is based on size.
GravityModel assumes that the interaction of people and goods between cities are proportional to the output of goods and distance between them.
Rank-sizeRule says that the places people live are linked to form interconnected independent urbansystems.
Rank-sizeRule: a geographic concept that describes how the populationsize in cities within a country may be distributed.(1/N)
Rank-size rule examples: Libya, Nigeria, Australia, and Brazil.
Primatecity: a city that exceeds in population size and influence(doesn’t fallow the Rank-sizerule).
PrimateCity examples: Mexico, France, Thailan, and Tokyo.
CentralPlaceTheory: 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-orderGoods
Luxury cars, high-ended fashion, and works of art.
High-orderservices
Sports events, museums, and culture festivals
Low-orderGoods
Grocery stores and common stores
Low-orderServices
Hair salons and Post offices
Range “theory” doesn’t account for real world geography or town distribution
from cities.
BurgessConetric-ZoneModel
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BurgessConetric-ZoneModel explains basic arrangements in cities such as Chicago and Philadelphia.
BurgessConetric-ZoneModel says that as you move away from the CBD of a city, land value and land use decreases and population becomes less dense.