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Urban Geography

Urban Geography. What is a city?. How do we define a City?. Population, Economic Function, Political Organization, Urban Culture Does population alone make up a city? Does density have anything to do with it?. Population. United States definition= 2500 Japan’s definition= 30,000

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Urban Geography

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  1. Urban Geography What is a city?

  2. How do we define a City? • Population, Economic Function, Political Organization, Urban Culture • Does population alone make up a city? • Does density have anything to do with it?

  3. Population • United States definition= 2500 • Japan’s definition= 30,000 • What is the problem with population alone as a definition ?

  4. Economic Function & Political Organization • An urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent self governing unit • Fixed boundaries, elected officials, taxes, ability to provided essential services

  5. Urban Culture • Urban vs. Rural (city slickers vs. country rubes) • Are people in cities more cultured? • Mass media has blurred that line • Social differences: Large size High density Social Heterogeneity

  6. Origins of the city • Since the earliest origins, cities have been centers of education, religion, commerce, record keeping, communication, and political power. • People moved to cities for employment, protection, and to be apart of civilization

  7. City Landscape • Macro- symbolic nature of the city cathedrals, monuments, bridges, skyscrapers, parks, sport stadiums etc… • Micro- the nooks and crannies of the city. Street layout (grid and curved street patterns). Front porches, street signs, store fronts.

  8. Urbanization • The process by which a city grows • The two dimensions of urbanization • Increase in the number of people living in the city • Increase in the percentage of people living in the city

  9. Urbanization • 1800 only 3% OF The World’s population lived in cities • London the only city over 1 million citizens • 2000 almost half of the World’s population inhabit cities • 400 cities with at least 1 million

  10. MDCs vs. LDCs • More developed countries have a higher percentage of urban residents • Less developed countries have more of the larger Urban areas

  11. Cities with 10 million

  12. Central City • A city that is surrounded by suburbs • Central City and Suburbs is call urbanized area • 60% of the United States live in an urbanized area

  13. Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) • The functional area of a City • MSA includes • A central city of at least 50,000 • The county within which the city is located • Adjacent counties with high population density, and a large percentage of residents work in the central city

  14. Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Area (CMSA) • Two adjacent MSAs with overlapping commuting patterns,1 million in population or more, and has separate component areas • CMSA Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Boulder, Denver, Douglas, Jefferson, and Weld.

  15. Primary Metropolitan Statistical Areas (PMSA) • With in a CMSA an MSA that exceeds 1 million may be classified as a PMSA • Adams, Arapahoe, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson

  16. Distribution of People within Urban Areas • Three models of urban Structure • Concentric Zone Model • Sector Model • Multiple Nuclei Model

  17. Concentric Zone Model • Created by E.W. Burgess (1923) • City grows outward like the growth rings of a tree

  18. Sector Model • Developed by Homer Hoyt (1939) • As a city grows in wedges out, certain areas are more attractive of different activities

  19. Multiple Nuclei Model • C.D. Harris & E.L. Ullman (1945) • A city includes multiple structures in which activity revolves

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