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Where are Cities Located and Why?

Where are Cities Located and Why?. Site * absolute location of a city * a city’s static location, often chosen for trade, defense, or religion. . Situation * relative location of a city * a city’s place in the region and the world around it. Site and Situation.

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Where are Cities Located and Why?

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  1. Where are Cities Located and Why?

  2. Site * absolute location of a city * a city’s static location, often chosen for trade, defense, or religion. Situation * relative location of a city * a city’s place in the region and the world around it. Site and Situation

  3. Trade area – an adjacent region within which a city’s influence is dominant. Trade area Green Country, Oklahoma

  4. Rank-Size Rule: in a model urban hierarchy, the population of the city or town will be inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy. The nth largest city will be 1/n the size of the largest city in that country. For example: largest city = 12 million 2nd largest = 6 million 3rd largest = 4 million 4th largest = 3 million

  5. Primate City The leading city of a country. The city is disproportionately larger than the rest of the cities in the country. For example: London, UK Mexico City, Mexico Paris, France - the rank-size rule does not work for a country with a primate city

  6. Central Place Theory Walter Christaller developed a model to predict how and where central places in the urban hierarchy (hamlets, villages, towns, and cities) would be functionally and spatially distributed. Assumed: surface is flat with no physical barriers soil fertility is the same everywhere population and purchasing power are evenly distributed region has uniform transportation network from any given place, a good or service could be sold in all directions out to a certain distance

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

  8. Urban Structure 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 purposes (functions).

  9. Zones of the City • Central business district (CBD) • Central City (the CBD + older housing zones) • Suburb (outlying, functionally uniform zone outside of the central city)

  10. Modeling the North American City • Concentric zone model (Ernest Burgess) • Sector model (Homer Hoyt) • Multiple Nuclei Model (Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman)

  11. Three Classical Models of Urban Structure

  12. Edge Cities Suburban downtowns, often located near key freeway intersections, often with: - office complexes - shopping centers - hotels - restaurants - entertainment facilities - sports complexes

  13. Urban Realms Model Each realm is a separate economic, social and political entity that is linked together to form a larger metro framework.

  14. Modeling the Cities of the Global Periphery and Semiperiphery • Latin American City (Griffin-Ford model) • African City (de Blij model) • Southeast Asian City (McGee model)

  15. Latin American City (Griffin-Ford model)

  16. Disamenity sector –very poorest parts of the city eg. the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

  17. The African City (de Blij model)

  18. Southeast Asian City (McGee model)

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