1. Urban Geography: overview

2. Key Topics: Regional and Global Scale
Services & functions cities provide
Urban Systems & Hierarchy
Distribution of cities- Globally &Regionally
Relationships between cities & the surrounding regions.

3. Urban Hierarchy Earth At Night
Knox and Marston

4. Earth at Night

5. Key Topics: Regional and Global Scale
Rural to Urban Migration
Core (HDC) compared to Periphery (LDC) urbanization
Globalization, population, megacities
Sao Paulo Brazil-
<- Lagos Nigeria -

6. Percent Urban

7. Urban Growth Rate- Patterns

8. Key Concepts - Local Scale
Internal Structures of Cities & Cultural Landscape
Areas of spatial pattern focus
Land use
Ethnic segregation
Transportation
Uneven development
Environmental impacts
Living conditions
Architecture
Use a variety of regions as case studies

9. Urban Landscapes Hong Kong Shang Hai China Orange County, CA
Rio De Janeiro- Brazil
Jakarta Indonesia
London

10. Sample US Models Bid - Rent Concentric Zone Edge Cities
Multiple Nuclei

11. Systems of Urban Settlements
Three Classes:
Special-function cities
Transportation Centers
Central Places
Help us to explain distribution patterns, size & functional hierarchies of the city system

12. Urban Hierarchy
Earth At Night

13. Rank-size Rule Rank Size Rule
Nth largest city of a national system will be 1/n the size of the largest city.
Example - US is close to this model - not a good model for newly urbanized countries ie LDC that are NIC

14. Primate City One dominate city in a country or region.
There is usually NOT an obvious second city
Example - Paris France million next city Marseille million

15. Paris historical site and growth

18. Urban Land Use Models

19. Concentric Zone Model

20. Hoyt Sector Model

21. Multiple Nuclei Model

22. Galactic City or Edge City Model

23. Metropolitan Statistical Areas

24. Central Place Theory