Chapter 1 Flashcards
The UN predicts that by 2050 about ____ of the planet’s population will live in cities.
two thirds
100 years ago, only __% of the planet’s population lived in cities
14%
The first time more than 50% of world’s population lived in urban areas
mid 1990’s
Inter-metropolitan/Urban systems
Highlights relations among a system or group of cities at a regional, national or global level.
- system of centers
Intrametropolitan
Highlights internal locational arrangements of humans, activities and institutions within metropolitan areas.
- activities within a center
- How is space structured within cities?
Spatial interaction
volume of flows and linkages over space among/within cities
Site
physical character of a location
Situation
where a site is located relative to other locations
Epistemology
the theory of knowledge, particularly with regard to its methods, validity, and scope
Positivism
- epistemology of the scientific method
- objectivity
- “one reality”
- knowledge is thought to be cumulative
- knowledge is thought to have a liberating impact on society
Structuralism
- marxism
- our world cannot be directly observed
- Our world must be understood in terms of larger, overarching structures
- Everything we do, how we think, feel and perceive, is influenced by underlying structures.
- there are deep structural realities that resist easy measurement
- urbanism can only be understood through deep understanding of capitalism in various historical forms
Humanism
- focused on meaning and experience
- focus on attitudes, perceptions, values towards place and landscape
- anthropocentric
- positivism - too scientific in nature
Distance Decay
reduction in the amount of movement/spatial interaction between two places the further they are apart
(world population) the mid-1990’s marked what?
The first time more than 50% of the world’s population lived in urban areas
Metropolitan Area
an extended form of urban area that consists of a large politically defined central city plus all of the surrounding areas that contain suburbs economically interconnected with the central city.
