GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Concentric Zone Model, Megacity, Chauncy Harris
12 Feb 2014
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Previously we defined urban in relation to rural: i. e. whatever is rural is non-urban, and whatever is urban is non-rural. Urban: many types and forms of definitions: demographic. Exceeding some threshold of population and/or density: economic. The existence/absence of economic activities (i. e. mining, agriculture, or finance and manufacturing) Urbanism: social/cultural way of thinking about the city (recall: an urban way of life) Urban morphology: the form or physical structure of the city (i. e. its layout, arrangement of land uses, population density and land use intensity, etc. ) Three influential models: explain/generalize the morphology of north american cities. Concentric zone model (sociologist ernest burgess) Multiple nuclei model (geographers chauncy harris & edward ullman) The process through which residential neighbourhoods come to be associated with particular social groups (economic, cultural, etc. ) Cities with rapid growth fueled by migrants and immigrants with very different backgrounds. Concentric zones each with neighbourhoods comprised of people of different ethnicities.
