Chapter 3 - North American Urban System Flashcards

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Scales

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Global

National/Regional

Metropolitan

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Globalization

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The growing interdependence of countries through the increasing variety and volume of cross-boarder transactions in goods and services and international capital flows and through the rapid and widespread diffusion of technology

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Primate City

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Cities that concentrate a high degree of the entire national population or of national political, intellectual, or economic life (e.g. Paris, France or Bangkok, Thailand).

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Gateway City

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Cities that served as a link between one country or region and others because of physical location (Vancouver, Sydney, New York)

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World City

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Centres of the world economy, places where critical decision making and interaction take place with regard to global economic, political, cultural issues

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Example of Primate Cities

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Paris

Bangkok

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Example of Gateway Cities

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Vancouver

Sydney

New York

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Example of World Cities

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London

Tokyo

New York

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Types of Cities

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Primate City

Gateway City

World City

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Biggest US urban areas by population

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New York

Los Angeles

Chicago

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Vance’s Mercantile Cities Model Date

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1970

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Vance’s Mercantile Cities Model Stages

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  1. Exploration
  2. Harvesting of Natural Resources
  3. Emergence of Farm-based Staple Production
  4. Emergence of Interior Gateway Cities
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Walter Christaller (1873-1969)

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Developed Central Place Theory

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Central Place Theory

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Attempts to answer the relationship between cities and their hinterlands across a hypothetical isotropic plain.

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Hinterland

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the region to which any city provides services, and upon which it draws for its needs

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3 requirement for central place theory

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  1. The hinterlands must divide the space completely, so that every point is inside the hinterland of some market
  2. All markets’ hinterlands must be of uniform shape and size
  3. Within each market region, the distance from the central place to the farthest peripheral location must be minimal
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Who developed Central Place Theory

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Walter Christaller (1873-1969)

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Suburb

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an outlying, typically residential district of a city

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Paradigm shifts in Transportation

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Canals

Rail

Roads

Air

Maglev