Chapter 10: Urbanization

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Chapter 10 Urbanization

• The City in Time and Space

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Urban Demographics Regions

• Urban vs. Rural population worldwide
• Worldwide urban increase
• Impacts on agriculture
• Impacts on poverty

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Diffusion of the City/Urbanization

• Models for the rise of cities
• Technical factors
• Hydraulic civilization
• Classes necessary to divide labor
• Religious factors
• Political factors
• Kingship
• Organizational issues
• Multiple factors
• Urban hearth areas

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Urban Evolution

• Functional zonation
• Global cities
• The Greek City
• Acropolis/Agora
• The grid pattern
• Roman Cities
• Plumbing! Its a good thing.
• Insulae the first high-rise low-income housing.
• Forum no, not our newspaper
• Diffusion of the castra -caster or -chester

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Evolution of cities, cont.

• The Medieval city five characteristics
• Fortress
• Cathedral
• Wall
• Market
• Charter the declaration of authority
• Districts
• Ghettos of ethnicity Judengasse of Frankfort

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Evolution of cities, cont.

• Renaissance and Baroque cities
• Rebirth of science and learning equals the
  beginnings of urban planning.
• Parisienne planning mob control.
• The Capitalist city
• Money determines where you live..
• Colonial cities within cities.
• Gendered space in cities.

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Space characteristics in cities

• Laissez-faire utilitarianism
• Agglomeration
• Class
• Race
• Gender
• Megalopolis, the future?
• Decentralization
• Edge cities

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Ecology of cities

• Site the setting
• Situation the context
• Defensive sites
• Trade route sites
• Example of
• Moscow, Russia
• Mont St. Michel, France

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Interaction Christallers Central Place Theory

• A model of place interaction
• Goods and Services
• Threshold
• Range
• Place order based on economic activity

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