Unit 6- Cities & Urban Patterns Flashcards
Urban Hearths
Where cities originate
Site factors
The climate, availability of water, soil quality (is it fertile?), other natural resources Examples: Near lakes, rivers, or other fresh water
Situation factors
Connections between one site and another site Examples: is it on a river or a port for trading opportunities
Urbanization
The population of urban settlements grows
3 attributes: large size, high population density, and socially heterogeneous people
Megacities
Urban settlement with a total population in excess of 10 million people
Metacities
Has more than 20 million people
Periphery
Countries with low levels of industrial productivity and low standards of living
Semi-Periphery
Countries with lower living standards than those in “core” countries, but higher than periphery countries
Processes of suburbanization
The migration of people from an urban area to a suburban area
Urban/Suburban Sprawl
The development of suburbs at relativity low density and at locations that are not contiguous to the existing built-up area
Edge cities
The nodes of consumer and business services around the beltway
Exurbs
Prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs (work from home)
Boomburbs
Rapidly growing suburban cities that represent a new metropolitan form
World Cities/Global Cities
Has influence not just within a region, but around the world
- New York, London, Paris, Tokyo
Rank-size rule
Statistical relationship between the largest city and the next largest city based on population
