Urban Patterns

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Urban Patterns
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Defining Urban Settlements

• Get out a sheet of paper.
• Write a definition for city.
• Draw a city.
• Get with a group of 3-4 and come up with a
  comprehensive definition.
• Read Defining a City background.

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• Complete the Percentage Graph
• Which region had the largest, most consistent
  increase?
• Which region had the largest percentage change?
• Which region is likely to experience the fastest
  growth in urbanization in the next period? The
  slowest?

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• Examine the Top 10 Lists provided
• Which cities appear multiple times?
• Which cities appear only later?
• Which cities drop out?
• What regions of the world are the most/least
  represented?
• Draw a line on your map separating the MDCs and
  LDCs. Think Wallerstein.
• Place the megacities on the map.
• Count the number of megacities located on each
  side of the line.

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Effects of Rapid Urbanization

• Squatter Settlements
• Favellas (Brazil), Barung-Barong (Philippines),
  Gecekondu (Turkey), Bastee (India)
• Explain the statement
• Many residents in LDCs lead rural-like lifestyles
  even though they live in massive urban areas.

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Big Idea

• What is the difference in saying
• MDCs have the highest percentage of ppl in urban
  areas.
• LDCs have the largest population living in urban
  areas.
• 75 vs 40
• 8/10 megacities are in LDCs

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Urban AreasDistribution of Services People
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Central Business District

• Shops in CBD high threshold, long range, serve
  CBD workers
• Need lots of ppl dept stores
• High-order expensive, specialized jewelry
  tourist attractions
• Worker oriented sells office supplies, shoe
  repair, dry cleaning, food
• Will also find producer services? agglomeration
  for improved communication

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Central Business District

• Most of these services have now moved to the
  suburbs (higher income, more ppl)
• Trying to revitalize like European shopping areas
  w/ car-free streets covered walkways
• Small area high concentration high
  competition high land value ()
• Intensive land use
• Many services excluded b/c cant afford land cost

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Central Business District

• Intensive Land Use
• Skyscrapers, underground cities, subways
• Utility lines all underground

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Central Business District

• Skyscrapers
• Distinct skylines
• 1st in Chicago (now a contest for tourism- Dubai)
• Probs
• Block sunlight/air currents (NEED artificial now)
• Wind tunnels outside
• Traffic congestion (more ppl per sq. mile
  working)
• Levels
• Offices at top (lower rent)
• Shops, hotels, food at bottom (higher rent)

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Central Business District

• Manufacturing gets kicked out
• High cost, little space
• Buildings left behind are retooled (new offices,
  tourist sites? Baltimore, Liverpool)
• Residents get kicked out
• High cost, not family oriented
• Ppl who do live there are often childless young
• Euro is opposite
• Want to live near historic district
• Old wealthy, cultural areas still in center

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Suburbanization

• Consumer services follow ppl (customers)
• Most service providers concentrate
• Supermarkets, shopping malls, lg parking lots
• Near major highway intersections
• Manufacturing follows cheap land/truck access
• No city traffic, free parking
• Probs
• Lower status workers w/o car cannot utilize
  public transportation

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Terms to know by Friday!

• Spend the remainder of the period defining these
  terms on a separate sheet of paper
• Zoning Laws
• Redlining
• Blockbusting
• Commercialization
• Gentrification
• Teardowns/McMansions
• New Urbanism
• Urbicide
• Spaces of Consumption

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Redlining
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New Urbanism
Seaside, Florida
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Gentrification
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Gentrification
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Gentrification
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Gentrification
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• http//safeshare.tv/v/wAsBta25OGQ

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Teardowns/ McMansions
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Urban ModelsGROUP TIME!!!
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Urban Model Posters

• Geographer, Date (context)
• Image- all parts labeled
• Minimum 5 points/details
• Pros/cons
• Compare/contrast
• Explanation of particularities

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