Where do cities locate and why?
Cities have been found to be located near trade areas. Where customers from smaller towns and villages come to the city to shop and to conduct other business. It has been found that the largest cities are the ones that have the largest trade areas, and as a result fewer places rival it as the major trade area.
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Central Place Theory
In the urban hierarchy, the central places would be nested, so the largest central place prices the greatest number of functions to most of the region. Wishing that trade area of the largest central place, a series of larger and smaller towns typically provide different services with less functions. Then within that region there would be even smaller services and so on. The central place theory created by Walter Christaller believed that cities would be regularly spaced, with central places where the same product was sold at the same price located a standard distance apart.
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Urban Sprawl
Urban sprawl is defined at the unrestricted growth of housing, commercial developments, and roads over large expanses of land, with little cancer for urban planning. Glaeser talks a lot about the negative impacts of urban sprawl. He talks about how urban sprawl has increase the carbon footprint greatly and the government is doing nothing. He believed though that if the government began to tax roads or gas that urban sprawl would decrease.
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The situation of a city is based on its role in the larger, surrounding. The site of a city is based on an absolute location, such as at the head of navigation of a river where two rivers converge.
Functional ZonationThe functional zonation is reveals how different areas or segments of a city serve different purposes or functions.
ZoneThe term zone is typically preceded by a descriptor that converts the purpose of that area of the city.
SuburbanizationSuburbanization is the process by which lands that were previously outside of the urban environment become urbanized, as people and businesses from the city move to these spaces.
RedliningFinancial insinuations in the business of lending money could engage in a practice known as redlining.
BlockbustingBlockbusting, relates would solicit white residents of the neighborhood to sell their homes under the guise that neighborhood was going downhill because a black person or family had moved in.
New UrbanismNew urbanism is a development, urban revitalization, and suburban reforms that create walkable neighborhood with a diversity of housing and jobs.
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The urban morphology of a city is the layout of the city in its physical form and structure. Such as the Greeks planning their colonial cities in a rectangular grid patter, and Romans adopted this plan whenever surface condition made it possible.
Sun Belt PhenomenonThe movement of millions of Americans from northern and northeastern States to the South and Southwest.
Central CityDescribes the urban area that is not suburban. In effect, central city refers to the older city as opposed to the new suburbs.
ShantytownsShantytowns are unplanned developments of crude dwellings and shelters made mostly of scarp wood, iron, and piece of cardboard that develop around cities.
CommercializationCommercialization which entails transforming the central business district into an area attractive to resents and tourists alike.
Informal economyInformal economy is the economy that is not taxed and is not counted toward a country’s gross national income.
World CitiesWorld Cities function at the global scale, beyond the reach of the state borders, functioning as the service centers of the world.
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