GEOG 210 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Edge City, Gentrification, Urban Design
26 Feb 2020
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North american city is structured around a central business district: transitional zone, suburbs, secondary business district and commercial strips. Urban structure varies from one region to the next influences of history culture and different roles that the cities have played within the world system. Cbd the central nucleus of commercial land uses in a city: surrounded by a zone of mixed land uses warehouses, small factories, workshops, specialized stores, apartment buildings and older residential neighborhoods. Cities get larger they get secondary business districts and commercial strips emerge in the suburbs to cater to local neighborhood shopping and service needs. Industrial districts develop around airports and large factories. Edge city = nodal concentration of shopping and office spaces that are situated on the outer fringes of metropolitan areas, typically near major highway intersection. Gentrification = the movement into older, centrally located working class neighborhoods by higher home income households seeking the character and convenience of lesser expansive and well-located residencies.
