#6 Urban Vocabulary Flashcards
Megacities
Cities, mostly characteristic of the developing world, where high population growth and migration have caused them to explode in population since World War II. Cities with more than 10 million people.
metacities
Agglomerations of several cities, towns, and suburbs that have expanded so that they coalesce into a single, sprawling urban mass of more than 20 million people.
Urbanization
An increase in the percentage and in the number of people living in urban settlements.
urban sprawl
The process of urban areas expanding outwards, usually in the form of suburbs, and developing over fertile agricultural land.
edge cities
A large node of office and retail activities on the edge of an urban area.
Boomburbs
rapidly growing city that remains essentially suburban in character even as it reaches populations more typical of a large city
World Cities
A group of cities that form an interconnected, internationally dominant system of global control of finance and commerce
Globalization
Actions or processes that involve the entire world and result in making something worldwide in scope.
rank-size rule
the country’s nth-largest settlement is 1/n the population of the largest settlement
primate city
The largest settlement in a country, if it has more than twice as many people as the second-ranking settlement.
Hoyt Sector Model
Focuses on residential patterns explaining where the wealthy in a city choose to live. He argued that the city grows outward from the center, so a low-rent area could extend all the way from the CBD to the city’s outer edge, creating zones which are shaped like pieces of a pie.
Harris-Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model
Developed in the 1950s by Chauncy Harris and Edward Ullman, this model explains the changing growth pattern of urban spaces based on the assumption that growth occurred independently around several major foci (or focal nodes), many of which are far away from the central business district and only marginally connected to it.
Galactic City Model (Peripheral Model)
represents the post-industrial city with its several, dispersed business districts. This model represents a distinct decentralization of the commercial urban landscape as the economy has transitioned to services as the leading form of production. Manufacturing has declined significantly and become specialized.
Latin American City Model
Combines elements of Latin American Culture and globalization by combining radial sectors and concentric zones. Includes a thriving CBD with a commercial spine. The quality of houses decreases as one moves outward away from the CBD, and the areas of worse housing occurs in the Disamenity sectors.
Southeast Asian City Model
McGee model. Developed by T.G McGee. The focal point of the city is the colonial port zone combined with the large commercial district that surrounds it. McGee found no formal CBD but found seperate clusters of elements of the CBD surrounding the port zone: the government zone, the Western commercial zone, the alien commercial zone, and the mixed land-use zone with misc. economic activities.
African City Model
model that suggests that African cities have more than one CBD, which is a remanence of colonialism
Bid rent theory
geographical economic theory that refers to how the price and demand on real estate changes as the distance towards the Central Business District (CBD) increases.
