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Urban Geography: overview

Urban Geography: overview. Key Topics: Regional and Global Scale. Services & functions cities provide Urban Systems & Hierarchy Distribution of cities- Globally &Regionally Relationships between cities & the surrounding regions. Urban Hierarchy. Earth At Night.

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Urban Geography: overview

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  1. Urban Geography: overview

  2. Key Topics: Regional and Global Scale • Services & functions cities provide • Urban Systems & Hierarchy • Distribution of cities- Globally &Regionally • Relationships between cities & the surrounding regions.

  3. Urban Hierarchy Earth At Night Knox and Marston http://wps.prenhall.com/wps/media/objects/814/834298/world_cities.GIF

  4. Earth at Night

  5. Key Topics: Regional and Global Scale • Rural to Urban Migration • Core (HDC) compared to Periphery (LDC) urbanization • Globalization, population, megacities Sao Paulo Brazil-http://www.csuhayward.edu/alumni_friends/public_affairs/international/brazil/skyline.jpg <- Lagos Nigeria - http://www.payer.de/kommkulturen/kultur11111.gif

  6. Percent Urban

  7. Urban Growth Rate- Patterns

  8. Key Concepts - Local Scale • Internal Structures of Cities & Cultural Landscape • Areas of spatial pattern focus • Land use • Ethnic segregation • Transportation • Uneven development • Environmental impacts • Living conditions • Architecture • Use a variety of regions as case studies

  9. Urban Landscapes Hong Kong Shang Hai China Orange County, CA Rio De Janeiro- Brazil Jakarta Indonesia London http://www.payer.de/kommkulturen/kultur112.htm

  10. Sample US Models Bid - Rent Concentric Zone Edge Cities Multiple Nuclei

  11. Systems of Urban Settlements Three Classes: Special-function cities Transportation Centers Central Places Help us to explain distribution patterns, size & functional hierarchies of the city system

  12. Urban Hierarchy Earth At Night

  13. Rank-size Rule • Rank Size Rule • Nth largest city of a national system will be 1/n the size of the largest city. • Example - US is close to this model - mot a good model for newly urbanized countries ie LDC

  14. Primate City • One dominate city in a country or region. • There is usually not an obvious second city • Example - Paris France - 8.7 million next city Marseille - 1.2 million

  15. Paris historical site and growth

  16. Urban Land Use Models

  17. Concentric Zone Model

  18. Hoyt Sector Model

  19. Multiple Nuclei Model

  20. Galactic City or Edge City Model

  21. Metropolitan Statistical Areas

  22. Central Place Theory

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