1. Lecture Notes on Chapter 9
URBAN GEOGRAPHY
Lecture Notes on Chapter 9

2. Bellringer
What types of activities occur in a city that might shape the cultural landscape in different ways?
Hint: think of the different types of buildings in a city

3. What is “urban geography”?
The study of the city—its layout, patterns, and the factors that shape it and continue to change it
The study of cities reveals how money and power shape urban spaces

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8. Why Did People Start Living in Cities?
City: A conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics

9. Urban Population

10. Where Are Cities Located, and Why?
Site
Absolute location
Situation
Relative location
A city’s place in the region and the world around it
Trade area: An adjacent region within which a city’s influence is dominant

11. Rank-Size Rule Characteristic of a model urban hierarchy
The population of the city or town is inversely proportional to its rank in the hierarchy
For example:
largest city = 12 million
2nd largest = 6 million
3rd largest = 4 million
4th largest = 3 million
Primate city: The leading city of a country, disproportionately larger than the rest of the cities

16. Bellringer Paris is the primate city of France.
What are possible advantages of having a primate city?
What are possible disadvantages of having a primate city?
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17. Central Place Theory Developed by Walter Christaller
Predicts how and where central places in the urban hierarchy are functionally and spatially distributed
The location of cities is not accidental, but tied to trade areas, population size, and distance

18. Hexagonal Hinterlands
C = city
T = town
V = village
H = hamlet

19. Trade Areas

20. Organization and Functions of Cities
Urban morphology: The layout of a city, its physical form and structure
Functional zonation: The division of the city into certain regions (zones) for certain functions (purposes)

21. Zones of the City Central business district: center of commerce
Central City: urban area that’s not suburban
Suburb: functionally uniform zone outside of the central city; mostly residential

22. Classical Models of Urban Structure
Burgess
Hoyt
Harris & Ulman

24. Bellringer
What is going on in the area next to the taller buildings? What is that area and why is it there?

25. Cities of Latin America
Griffin-Ford model
Disamenity sectors:
Not connected to city services
May be controlled by gangs and drug lords

26. Cities of Subsaharan Africa

27. Cities of Southeast Asia
McGee model
Colonial port as focal point

28. Shaping Residential Housing Patterns
Redlining: Financial institutions refusing to lend money in certain neighborhoods
Blockbusting : Realtors purposefully selling a home at a low price to an African American and then soliciting white residents to sell their homes at low prices, to generate “white flight”
Gentrification: Individuals buying and rehabilitating houses, raising the housing value in the neighborhood

29. Gated Communities
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30. Urban Sprawl