APHG Unit Seven Review

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APHG Unit Seven Review

• Cities and Urban Land Use

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Urban Geography

• Focuses on how cities function, their internal
  structures, and external influences on them
• Urban area nucleated, and people that work there
  perform non-agricultural jobs
• Nucleated one or more clear core areas
• Suburbs nucleated, but use much more land space
  for residents that work in the cities

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Urbanized Areas

• Continuously built-up landscapes of buildings and
  populations so that political boundaries are
  vague
• Metropolitan Area large-scale functional entity
  that operates as an integrated economic whole
• Metropolitan Statistical Area a central county
  or counties with at least one urbanized area of
  50,000 people or more
• Micropolitan Statistical Area smaller version
  contains 10,000 to 50,000 people

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Urban Hierarchy

• Hamlet small cluster of farmers houses
• Village likely to offer a dozen or more
  services stores only sell certain goods
• Town structures have specialized functions has
  hinterland (surrounding area of smaller villages
  and hamlets)
• City large population, specialization,
  hinterland, and centrality also CBD
• Megalopolis multiple cities that grow together
  BosWash

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Juno, Prom?

• -Nicole ?

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Social Characteristics

• 1930, Louis Wirth said cities have three things
  in common
• Large Size anonymous population social
  contracts
• High Density specialized jobs competition for
  space
• Social Heterogeneity loneliness and isolation
  diverse population

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Role of Government

• The period from 4,000-2,000 B.C.E. is known as
  the formative era for cities
• This was also the formative era for states

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Functions of Early Cities

• Centers of power seat of government
• Religious Centers
• Economic Centers markets
• Educational Centers teachers and philosophers

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Early Urbanization

• City-States self-governing communities that
  included the nearby countryside
• Athens was first city to reach 100,000 people

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World Cities

• Three main world cities London, New York, and
  Tokyo
• Stock exchanges
• Large population
• Second tier cities Chicago, Los Angeles,
  Washington D.C., Brussels, Frankfurt, Paris,
  Zurich, Sao Paulo, Singapore
• Third tier cities Bangkok, Bombay, Hong Kong,
  Malila, Osaka, Seoul, Taipei

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World Cities

• Business Services businesses that take less
  space stay in cities
• Consumer Services more wealthy people live in
  cities
• Public Services national or international seats
  of political power

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Megacities

• Population over 10 million
• Ten Largest Megacities (2006)
• Tokyo 34 million
• Mexico City 22 million
• Seoul 22 million
• New York City 21 million
• Sao Paulo 20 million
• Mumbai 19 million
• Delhi 19 million
• Shanghai 18 million
• Los Angeles 18 million
• Osaka 16 million