Urban Forms Flashcards
Physicals factors affecting urban forms?
- Topography, influence growth of city
- Water, can’t limit growth or occur along river etc
- Natural resources, rich resources encourages growth
- Land type
Human factors affecting urban forms?
- Planning, planned or unplanned developments
- Infrastructure, built along transport links
- Land value
Land use patterns in developed world?
CBD surrounded by housing.
Land value highest in city centre
But as distance increases houses generally increase in price
Formation of out of town retail parks dues to cheap land in semi-rural areas.
Land use patterns in developing world?
CBD surrounded by housing
Housing decreases in value with distance from the centre.
• city centre, high land value, high cost housing, wealthier
• zone of medium cost housing
• outskirts land value low, informal housing, poorly paid, poverty
What is a Town Centre Mixed Development?
Mixed land use; residential, commercial and leisure
Planned by councils with private investment
Fortress developments?
Lots of security, located in suburban areas of cities.
Designed to give a safe environment, but create inequality, only rich there
Edge city?
New offices, shops and leisure facilities developed close to major transport links.
Generally developed between 1950-60s as car ownership has increased
Cultural heritage quarters?
Focus on history or character of a city.
Home theatres, art galleries etc
Developed by local councils to regenerate former industrial areas
Gentrified area?
Wealthier people move into rundown inner city and regenerate by improving housing.
Large range of services
Displaced poorer residents
Post-modern city?
Post modern western cities • multiple centres with different purposes • tertiary and quaternary industry • less uniform architecture • prioritise aesthetics • huger social and economic inequality
