URBN PL 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Urban Sprawl, Urban Density, Industrial Revolution
15 May 2020
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Improvement in transportation has made it possible for cities to become: A pattern of land use in an urbanized area that exhibits low levels of some combination of either distinct dimensions: Density, continuity, concentration, clustering, centrality, nuclearity, mixed uses, proximity (low levels of these) Extended pieces of land outside the city with a majority of single family houses. Urban planners don"t like sprawl and tend to define it as the non central city parts of metropolitan areas . Descriptions of suburbia are plagued with negative adjectives (ie classless, segregated, standardized, monotonous, boring) People can travel beyond walking distance of commercial and industrial activity. People can move from downtown to suburbs. Allowed for better transportation and therefore increased sprawl. Monocentric city has distinction between downtown and residential areas. Metropolitan areas expanded into larger areas thanks to the intro of the private automobile, but also freight with facilitated the distribution of products. Monocentric: urban areas, everything concentrated in downtown, urban core.
