GEOG 217 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Urban Design, Industrial Revolution, Counterurbanization
27 Mar 2018
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History and the definition of a modern city. Range distance willing to travel to obtain a good. Threshold area defined by min consumers needed to be able to supply the good. Increase in urban growth: mature industrial capitalism, population and technology boom, urban growth reinforce existing pattern, auto industry rises. Models of n. american cities: zone 1 central business district, zone 2 transition zone, zone 3 low income housing, zone 4 middle class, zone 5 suburbs. Sectoral model: shaped using land use wedges, wedges change over time and can get bigger, central business district is in the center, overtime a city expands outwards, as you go further from the city prices increase. All 3 cities cities are actually social mosaic: development in transport: Transportation and urban morphology: street car (densified cities) commuter rail (increased distance between work and travel) automobile (freeway, suburbia, more dispersed transport, urban planning relationship between cities and inhabitants industrial city.
