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URBAN GEOGRAPHY

URBAN GEOGRAPHY. Lecture Notes on Chapter 9. Bellringer. What types of activities occur in a city that might shape the cultural landscape in different ways? Hint: think of the different types of buildings in a city. What is “ urban geography ” ?.

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URBAN GEOGRAPHY

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  1. URBAN GEOGRAPHY Lecture Notes on Chapter 9

  2. Bellringer • What types of activities occur in a city that might shape the cultural landscape in different ways? • Hint: think of the different types of buildings in a city

  3. What is “urban geography”? • The study of the city—its layout, patterns, and the factors that shape it and continue to change it • The study of cities reveals how money and power shape urban spaces

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  8. Why Did People Start Living in Cities? • City: A conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics

  9. Urban Population

  10. Site Absolute location Situation Relative location A city’s place in the region and the world around it Trade area: An adjacent region within which a city’s influence is dominant Where Are Cities Located, and Why?

  11. Rank-Size Rule • Characteristic of a model urban hierarchy • The population of the city or town is inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy For example: largest city = 12 million 2nd largest = 6 million 3rd largest = 4 million 4th largest = 3 million • Primate city: The leading city of a country, disproportionately larger than the rest of the cities

  12. Bellringer • Paris is the primate city of France. • What are possible advantages of having a primate city? • What are possible disadvantages of having a primate city? • BRING YOUR TEXTBOOK TOMORROW

  13. Central Place Theory • Developed by Walter Christaller • Predicts how and where central places in the urban hierarchy are functionally and spatially distributed • The location of cities is not accidental, but tied to trade areas, population size, and distance

  14. C = city T = town V = village H = hamlet Hexagonal Hinterlands

  15. Trade Areas

  16. Organization and Functions of Cities • Urban morphology: The layout of a city, its physical form and structure • Functional zonation: The division of the city into certain regions (zones) for certain functions (purposes)

  17. Zones of the City • Central business district: center of commerce • Central City: urban area that’s not suburban • Suburb: functionally uniform zone outside of the central city; mostly residential

  18. Classical Models of Urban Structure Hoyt Harris & Ulman Burgess

  19. Bellringer • What is going on in the area next to the taller buildings? What is that area and why is it there?

  20. Cities of Latin America • Griffin-Ford model • Disamenity sectors: • Not connected to city services • May be controlled by gangs and drug lords

  21. Cities of Subsaharan Africa

  22. Cities of Southeast Asia • McGee model • Colonial port as focal point

  23. Shaping Residential Housing Patterns • Redlining:Financial institutions refusing to lend money in certain neighborhoods • Blockbusting : Realtors purposefully selling a home at a low price to an African American and then soliciting white residents to sell their homes at low prices, to generate “white flight” • Gentrification: Individuals buying and rehabilitating houses, raising the housing value in the neighborhood

  24. Gated Communities • Find image

  25. Urban Sprawl

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