urban expansion Flashcards
cities can’t grow cuz
suburbs wanna remain legally independent of the large city (no city taxes)
annexation
process of legally adding land area to a city
defining urban settlements: city
a legal entity
defining urban settlements: urbanized area
continuously built up area
defining urban settlements: metropolitan area
a functional area
a city is an
urban settlement that has been legally incorporated into an independent, self governing unit
urbanized area
the central city and the surrounding c=built up suburbs
metropolitan statistical area MSA
the functional area of a city
including:
urbanized area with pop >50,000
the county that the city is in
adjacent counties
366
micropolitan statistical areas µSAs
including
urbanized area with pop 10,000-50,000
the county that the city is in
adjacent counties
574
core based statistical area CBSAs
MSAs and µSAs together
combined statistical areas CSAs
combining MSAs and µSAs
124
primary census statistical areas PCSAs
includes:
MSA and µSAs not combined
into CSAs
plus CSAs =
local government fragmentation
fragmenting local government in the USA makes it hard to solve regional problems of traffic waste disposal and building affordable housing….
council of governemnt
a cooperative agency consisting of representatives of the various local govnts in the region
2 kinds of metropolitan govnts
1-consolidations of city and county govnts=city and county come together
2- federation (come together of many local govnts)
