Urban Patterns Flashcards
1
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Levels of economic activity
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Primary: harvesting resources
Secondary: manufacturing
Tertiary: moving, selling, and services
Quaternary: information processing and intellectual services
2
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Premise of location theory
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Competition for land use is dependent on rent paying ability and results in spatial patterning of those land uses
3
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Johann von Thunen’s Agricultural location theories
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Crop theory: agriculture is in concentric rings around the market
Intensity theory: specific land use decreases with distance from the market
4
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City growth in hisotry
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- Walking city
- Streetcar suburbs
- Automotive city
5
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Metropolitan area
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May contain several urban areas
6
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Megacity
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Metropolitan area with population > 10 million
7
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Models of urban structure
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- Concentric zone
- Sector
- Multiple nuclei
8
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White flight
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- Minorities move into the city and white people move out to suburbs
- Minorities move into the first ring of suburbs and those white people move back into the city
9
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Principles for sustainable communities
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- Walkability
- Connectivity
- Diversity in use
- Mixed housing
- Quality design and architecture
- Increased density
- Public transportation
- Quality of life
