1. AIM: to what extent has urbanization altered the planet?

2. What is urbanization?
Living in a city. The process making rural land more urban i.e.: turning a rural area into a city.

3. Types of Urban Settlements
Early Cities
(European) Medieval cities (Feudal City)
Colonial City
Gateway City
Planned City
Temporary City

4. Early Cities

6. What buildings tended to serve as the focal point?Ur

7. ?

8. Tikal

9. Tenochtitlan

11. Mexico City

14. Rome

15. Feudal / Medieval (European) Cities

16. Old Amsterdam

17. Medieval Paris

18. 19th Century Paris

24. London Docklands

25. Temporary Cities

26. Kraal
KwaBulawayo

27. Kraal

28. Karakorum

30. (Modern) Planned Cities
Urban planning

33. ?
Washington D.C

34. Yamoussoukra

35. What does this image of Yamoussoukra remind you of?

36. Frequently also “Gateway Cities.” Why?
Colonial Cities
Frequently also “Gateway Cities.” Why?

37. Cuzco

38. Take note of the foundation.

40. Maputo (Lourenzo Marques) , Mozambique

41. Maputo

42. Taj Hotel, Mumbai

43. Mumbai

44. Gateway Cities

45. Aim: what are urban hierarchies?

46. (Population) Size US Hierarchy Unincorporated areas Hamlet Village
Town and hinterlands
Cities
Metropolis
Megalopolis (Conurbation)
US Hierarchy

53. Aim: what are urban hierarchies?

54. Large City (possible Primate City)
Rank Size Rule
Pn=P1/n
Exceptions to the rule?
Large City (possible Primate City)

55. Rank Size Rule
Pn=P1/n
0.5
0.25
0.125 1
Examples?

56. Christaller’s Central Place Theory
City
Town
Village
Hamlet
Urban Sprawl
Exurbanites
Edge Cities
Metropolitan Area

58. Central Place Theory as applied to the Tri-State Region

59. More than just population.
Great (World) Cities
London
New York
Tokyo
Paris
Other Large Cities: Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Los Angeles, Chicago, Moscow, Cairo, Kinshasa, Mumbai, Shanghai, Beijing…
More than just population.

60. World’s Most Populous Cities
Tokyo
Guangzhou (Canton)
Seoul
Shanghai
Delhi
Mumbai
Mexico City
New York
Sao Paolo
Manila
What about…
Lagos
Jakarta
Cairo
Etc.

61. Aim: how do urban settlements evolve?
Transportation, job opportunities, culture, politics and religion all play a role.

62. Burgess’ Concentric Zone Model
Segregation
Suburbs
Exurbs
Exurbanite
Burgess’ Concentric Zone Model

63. Concentric Zone Model

64. Role of transportation

65. Transportation, Edge Cities, the Mall (in the USA), high speed rail in Europe.

66. Alternative culturally influenced models

67. Alternative culturally influenced models

68. Alternative culturally influenced models

69. Fin

70. Burgess’ Concentric Zone Model
Suburbs
Exurbs
Exurbanite
Squatter Camps
Ghettoization
Gentrification

71. AIM: urban settlements

72. Aim: to what extent are urban settlements subject to urban blight or urban renewal?

73. Suburbs

74. Urban Renewal and Gentrification
What are they?
Problems and Benefits?
Urban Blight

75. Urban Blight

76. H A R L E M

77. “White Flight” vs. Gentrification

78. Urban Renewal

79. Squatter Camp

80. Favela

82. Ghetto

83. Ghetto

85. Fin