Urban Forms Flashcards
(42 cards)
What is an urban form? What are examples of characteristics of urban forms? - Urban Forms
An urban form is the physical characteristics that make up a city, including its size, shape, population density and land use patterns.
How does topography affect urban forms? Is this a physical or human factor? - Urban Forms
Topography can impact population density based on the steepness of the land and its suitability for construction. Steep land can cause the creation of informal settlements.
PHYSICAL
How does infrastructure affect urban forms? Is this a physical or human factor? - Urban Forms
Good infrastructure can act as a pull factor encouraging people to come to a city, increasing population density. Creates ports/airports and increases interconnection between urban areas. Cities often located on coasts.
HUMAN
How does land value affect urban forms? Is this a physical or human factor? - Urban Forms
Increased land value can attract large business and retail to an area and push out independents, can also encourage the formation of a CBD in the city centre. Also can increase population density.
HUMAN
How does water affect urban forms? Is is a physical or human factor? - Urban Forms
Water in the form of a river or the sea can promote the creation of industry based around water in cities, with population also increasing and decreasing based on water supply. Also promotes floods.
PHYSICAL
How do natural resources affect urban forms? Is this a physical or human factor? - Urban Forms
Higher population density, higher land value all promoted by access to natural resources, with businesses also keen to locate near these areas.
PHYSICAL
How does land type affect urban forms ? Is this a physical or human factor? - Urban Forms
Swamps and wetlands can discourage urban growth, whilst other more stable surfaces can be more expensive to urbanise on due to their higher land value.
PHYSICAL
How does planning affect urban forms? Is this a physical or human factor? - Urban Forms
Planning can permit urban expansion, with developing countries seeing unchecked expansion through lack of planning at slums.
Planned developments often include open space and leisure.
What is urban morphology? - Urban Forms
Urban morphology is the spatial structure or form and organisation of an urban area. How an urban area is laid out and its patterns of land use.
What is the Bid-Rent model? What does it show? - Urban Forms
The Bid-Rent model is a diagram showing how land value decreases as you move away from the CBD. This also shows distinctive land uses of retail, manufacture and residential areas.
What is PLVI? - Urban Forms
PLVI is the Peak Land Value Intersection, demonstrating where in a city the land value is at its highest.
What are the characteristics of cities in the DEVELOPED world? - Urban Forms
Cities in the developed world have a CBD dominated by retail and offices, inner city areas have high land values and high housing density, have residential areas as you move from the CBD, suburban areas develop away from the inner city.
What are the characteristics of cities in the UNDEVELOPED world? - Urban Forms
Tend to have a CBD with offices and retail at the centre,high land value is in the city centre with luxury apartments, industrial areas exist along transport routes, low land value on outskirts of the city leads to the creation of informal settlements.
Describe a town centre mixed development - Urban Forms
Town centre mixed developments are areas where land use is mixed between residential, commercial and leisure uses. They contain houses, offices, shops, cinemas, theatres, restaurants, bars etc.
Why were town centre mixed developments created? - Urban Forms
Town centre mixed developments aimed to attract people back to city centres which had witnessed decline through offering opportunities to live, work and relax all in one place.
What are characteristics of town centre mixed developments? - Urban Forms
Town centre mixed developments have a range of leisure facilities (cinemas, theatres, cafes, bars, gyms), nightlife, FLAGSHIP SHOPS, new offices, apartments, hotels and conference centres.
What advantages are there of town centre mixed developments? - Urban Forms
Town centre mixed developments have seen the resurgence of previously declining city centres, with these developments often becoming the main attraction to individual cities.
What disadvantages are there of town centre mixed developments? - Urban Forms
Town centre mixed developments have not always been successful, with smaller cities not having the same attraction to their complexes as larger cities have.
What are cultural and heritage quarters? - Urban Forms
Cultural and heritage quarters are areas that focus on the history/character of a city due to its previous cultural links. Very often regenerated former industrial areas focussing on tourism.
Why have cultural and heritage quarters developed? - Urban Forms
Ex-industrial areas have declined since deindustrialisation, with cultural links to the past used to create tourism opportunities based around previous heritage and culture of a place.
What are characteristics of cultural and heritage quarters? - Urban Forms
Cultural and heritage quarters tend to be built around art galleries, theatres, museums and attractions based around past heritage and current culture in an area.
What are advantages of cultural and heritage quarters? - Urban Forms
Cultural and heritage quarters can improve perceptions of a place as well as revitalise employment in declining areas. They preserve and revisit an area’s history and culture.
What are gentrified areas? - Urban Forms
Gentrified areas are where run down properties have been bought and renovated by wealthy individuals with the aim of developing high cost housing to generate profit.
How does gentrification differ from regeneration? - Urban Forms
Gentrification tends to be carried out by private companies and individuals to create large profit margins, whereas regeneration is often government sanctioned and with the aim of boosting the image of an area instead of profit.
