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Get out stuff for notes Urban Models: North America test corrections end tomorrow hw: read pgs , APRIL 9, 2018
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Borchert’s epochs of transportation
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u.s. cities growth stages
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Models of development
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Central business district
Center of urban area Highest priced land High number of services Business Public Consumer High accessibility-center of transportation
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Burgess Concentric zone model (1923)
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Explanation of concentric zone model
Zone 1: Central Business District high land cost = skyscrapers, high accessibility, mostly businesses/restaurants/shops Zone 2: Zone of Transition Industrial area, poorer housing with renters (mostly immigrants/singles) Zone 3: Zone of Independent Workers Homes Working class homes, still a good amount of renters Zone 4: Zone of Better Residents Newer and bigger homes, middle class residents, less renting Zone 5: Communter’s Zone Upper class, large spacious homes, workers commute to CBD
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Concentric zone model: Chicago
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Bid rent theory Land prices are closest to CBD
Payoff between accessibility and profits
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Hoyt Sector model (1939) Based on wedge- shaped sectors radiating out from CBD Based on transport networks
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Harris & ullman Multiple nuclei model (1945)
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Explanation of multiple nuclei model
Urban Sprawl Importance of automobile and highways Smaller Business Districts created to support suburbs Ex: Atlanta
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Peripheral/galactic model
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Explanation of peripheral/galactic
Inner city surrounded by large suburban residential and business areas Tied together by beltway or ring road Edge Cities
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Vance Urban realms model
Decentralized CBD Edge cities have become mini realms Edge cities connected via transportation
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Changes in Cities in the U.S.
U.S. population has been moving out of the city centers to the suburbs: suburbanization and counterurbanization Developed Countries: suburbanization wealthy move to suburbs automobiles and roads; ‘American Dream’ better services Counter-urbanization idyllic settings cost of land for retirement slow pace, yet high tech connections to services and markets U.S. intraregional migration during 1990s.
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