Cities - Spaces and Places
Geography 1101 with Trauger at University of Georgia
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Places and Regions in Global Context: Human Geography (5th Edition)
Created: 2012-04-25
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Places (in review)
1) structure daily routines
2) provide opportunities and constraints for well-being
3) provide a context to gather everyday knowledge and information
4) provide a setting for socialization
5) provide an arena for contesting social norms
Places = Humans, vice versa.
2) provide opportunities and constraints for well-being
3) provide a context to gather everyday knowledge and information
4) provide a setting for socialization
5) provide an arena for contesting social norms
Places = Humans, vice versa.
Urban Functions
Accessibility
♦ workers, markets, resources transportation
♦ jobs, amenities, friends, entertainment
Territoriality - attachment to place
♦ claim space
∗private property
∗public land
city center ⇒ high-volume retailing ⇒ factories ⇒ warehousing ⇒ residential
♦ workers, markets, resources transportation
♦ jobs, amenities, friends, entertainment
Territoriality - attachment to place
♦ claim space
∗private property
∗public land
city center ⇒ high-volume retailing ⇒ factories ⇒ warehousing ⇒ residential
Congregation/Segregation
congregation: territorial or residential clustering of specific groups/subgroups
segregation: spatial separation of specific subgroups within a wider population
∗ enclaves: ethnic districts, identity
∗ ghettos: low-income, discrimination
∗ colonies: conquest, immigration
segregation: spatial separation of specific subgroups within a wider population
∗ enclaves: ethnic districts, identity
∗ ghettos: low-income, discrimination
∗ colonies: conquest, immigration
Patterns of Urban Structure
central business district:
♦ offices, hotels, transportation hubs
zone in transition:
♦ mixed industrial, stores, housing, workshops, public housing projects
residential zones (ethnicity/class):
♦ worker homes
♦ manager homes
♦ gentrification
♦ offices, hotels, transportation hubs
zone in transition:
♦ mixed industrial, stores, housing, workshops, public housing projects
residential zones (ethnicity/class):
♦ worker homes
♦ manager homes
♦ gentrification
North American cities
Fiscal problems:
♦ taxes/revenue can't keep up expenditures
♦ low tax base due to inner-city poverty
Infrastructure problems:
♦ public utilities, transportation, communications
♦ white flight, sprawl, people with money leave
Poverty/Neighborhood decay:
♦ wage/rent disparities
♦ redlining
♦ homelessness
♦ taxes/revenue can't keep up expenditures
♦ low tax base due to inner-city poverty
Infrastructure problems:
♦ public utilities, transportation, communications
♦ white flight, sprawl, people with money leave
Poverty/Neighborhood decay:
♦ wage/rent disparities
♦ redlining
♦ homelessness
Polycentric Metropolis
traditional downtown (banking, finance)
newer business centers (older residential, new corporate HQ)
internal edge cities (revitalized industrial areas)
external edge cities (freeway, airports, new development)
outermost edge city complexes (R&D and offices)
specialized subcenters (education, entertainment, sports complexes)
newer business centers (older residential, new corporate HQ)
internal edge cities (revitalized industrial areas)
external edge cities (freeway, airports, new development)
outermost edge city complexes (R&D and offices)
specialized subcenters (education, entertainment, sports complexes)
Edge cities
•Nodalconcentrations of shopping and office space situated on the fringes ofmetropolitan areas, typically near highway interchanges
–Tyson’s Corner (no zip code)
•45,000 residents
•100,000 jobs
•27 million sq feet of office space
•9 major dept stores
•3,500 hotel rooms
•Parking for 90,000 cars
(un)Packaged Landscapes
Sprawl: explosive, spreading growth
- "sprawlmart"
Boomburbs: rapidly growing suburbs
- political geography - Minnesota
Gated communities
- Fortress communities
Generica: homogenous development.
- "sprawlmart"
Boomburbs: rapidly growing suburbs
- political geography - Minnesota
Gated communities
- Fortress communities
Generica: homogenous development.
Smart Growth
•Growthdesigned to curb sprawl
–Preservingopen space
–Redevelopinginner suburbs
–Reducingdependency on automobiles
–Encouraginginnovative design
•Pedestrianfriendly communities, mixed land uses, commercial centers at transit stops
–Creatingcommunity
•Regionalinterdependence, solidarity
European cities
♦ Low skylines
- CBD growth occurred before elevators
♦ Lively downtowns
- CBD remains social center instead of suburbs
♦ Neighborhood stability
- less extended mobility
♦ Municipal socialism
- clinics, public transit, social housing
- CBD growth occurred before elevators
♦ Lively downtowns
- CBD remains social center instead of suburbs
♦ Neighborhood stability
- less extended mobility
♦ Municipal socialism
- clinics, public transit, social housing
Islamic cities
Jami: principal mosque
- centrally located
- center of worship, education, welfare functions
Suqs: street marketplace (bazaars)
- streets from mosque
Ahya': residential areas
- around suqs
- privacy
- centrally located
- center of worship, education, welfare functions
Suqs: street marketplace (bazaars)
- streets from mosque
Ahya': residential areas
- around suqs
- privacy
Peripheral cities
mega-cities in the periphery
- underemployment: working less than full time.
- informal economy: outside regulation, cash
- uneven development: slum
- congested transportation systems
- degraded environmental conditions
- underemployment: working less than full time.
- informal economy: outside regulation, cash
- uneven development: slum
- congested transportation systems
- degraded environmental conditions
About this deck
By: Iz Do
Textbook: Places and Regions in Global Context: Human Geography (5th Edition)
Created: 2012-04-25
Size: 12 flashcards
Views: 3
Textbook:
Places and Regions in Global Context: Human Geography (5th Edition)Created: 2012-04-25
Size: 12 flashcards
Views: 3
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