GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ford Model T
27 Apr 2016
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Morphology: shape of built environment: what a city looks like from above. Analytic methods enable us to pull apart this chaos to look for patterns transportation and urban morphology: influence of transportation on cities, urban morphology. Physical space and shape of a city. Defined by the built environment: there is a relationship between the social spaces of the city and the built environment, big story rise of automobile in 20th century in north american cities. Not the first transformation in urban morphology cities reshaped by the automobile typical daily movement (late 20th century north american city: divide destinations in categories. Work school/shopping social/recreational: vast majority of trips begin and end at the home. Or is travel behaviour responsive to transportation: pattern of land use. Existing residential, commercial and industrial pattern of land use: residential location residential location may be determined by patterns of land use, transportation choice (automobile, etc. ) residential location is going to effect your transportation choice.
