GEOG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Joel Garreau, Edge City
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Both sector and concentric model have a central business district. Sector model is driven by the car. Also known as spoken wheel model (spokes represent transportation arteries) Developed by chauncey harris in 1945, geographer. Residency and employment are in close proximity. Suggesting we are seeing development on the outside of the city, edge. Labor force is residing in these outer areas. Us experienced rapid urbanization through industrial area. After wwii, us began to experience de urbanization (suburbanization) Us the only country to witness this. Why suburbanization: cheaper land/taxes, more space, privacy, independence, better schools, lower crime, the car allows us to have access to the city. Detroit: estimated that 25% of pop left between 2000 and. 2010 40% of streetlights in detroit were not working. Lowest socioeconomic and demographic indicators in england. 1966: proposal to demolish 36% of all homes.
