PATTERNS OF POPULATION AND MIGRATION

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PATTERNS OF POPULATION AND MIGRATION
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• Pre-1820 - United Kingdom, Northern Europe, and
  Africa
• 1820 1890 Northern and Western Europe (United
  Kingdom, Ireland, Germany)
• 1890 1925 Southern and Eastern Europe
• 1925 1965 Immigration restrictions
• 1965 present Latin America and Asia

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• 1960s present most to 6 states (California,
  Texas, New York, Florida, Illinois and New
  Jersey) 70 of immigrants live in these states
• In 2000, 33 of foreign born lived in New York
  and Los Angeles metropolitan areas
• What about non-traditional destinations such as
  Atlanta?

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Atlanta Immigration

• Before 1980 primarily domestic migration
• After 1980 both domestic and international
  migration
• Pace of immigration increased since 1990
• Coincides with Atlantas emergence as a
  high-technology metropolitan area
• Foreign-born account for 26 of metro Atlantas
  population increase from 1990 - 2000

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Atlanta Immigration, cont.

• 3/5 of all foreign-born in metro Atlanta arrived
  after 1990
• ½ from Latin America, ¼ from Asia (mirrors
  national trends)
• 28 of foreign born from Mexico (mirrors national
  trends)

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Top 10 countries of origin of foreign born U.S.
and metro Atlanta
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Urban Geography

• study of spatial patterns and processes
  associated with urban areas
• Systems of cities cities as points in space and
  their interrelationships examples urban
  hierarchies, trade patterns
• Internal structures of cities spatial
  arrangement of places and activities within urban
  areas - examples urban decentralization, urban
  sprawl, gentrification

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Urban decentralization

• Metropolitan areas sprawl in all directions
• Suburbs take on many characteristics of
  traditional downtowns
• Characteristic of North American (especially
  U.S.) cities

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Models of the internal structure of the city

• Abstractions identify basic elements of urban
  structure
• Early 20th century the concentric ring model
• Late 20th century the urban realms model

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Concentric zone model

• Urban land uses neatly organized in rings around
  a CBD (central business district)
• Assumptions CBD most accessible part of the
  city, higher income people value land more than
  accessibility
• Incomes rise with distance away from CBD

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Urban Realms Model

• City consists of several realms
• CBD is only one of several activity centers
• Edge cities develop in suburban areas and have
  many functions traditionally associated with
  downtowns
• Assumptions freeways and dominance of autos,
  accessibility is more diffuse

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Internal Structure of Contemporary Cities

• Gentrification (central city)
• Racial and ethnic clustering and segregation
• Urban Sprawl (outer areas)

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Gentrification

• The process of urban revitalization in which
  higher income residents displace lower income
  residents in central city neighborhoods

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Urban sprawl

• A low-density, fragmented, and auto-dependent
  form of urban development

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