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24 Cards in this Set
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- Growth of the sprawling city - Traditional City structures - Polycentric Metropolis - Urban Problems - New urbanism |
North American Cities |
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- underlying logic: different land uses willing to pay for closeness to center - Trade-offs between transport time and other factors - Result: Central Business District/Core, Transitional area; Residential areas. |
Traditional City Structures |
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- Urban Realms - Edge cities and newer business - Specialized centers for education, entertainment, recreation - Gentrification of declining inner-city areas |
Poly-centric Metroplis |
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-Costs of Sprawl: environmental effects, commute times - fiscal challenges as people leave central city - Decaying/declining infrastructure - "cycle of poverty" and neighborhood decay in inner-city areas - Racial segregation redlining |
Urban Problems |
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Design Philosophy replicating traditional cities |
New Urbanism |
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- Historic Streets from roman influences, ancient rural settlement, long slow growth - Plazas and squares - Symbolic spaces: palaces, guildhalls, cultural institutions - Low skylines --> developed before elevators kept low by regulation - continuing lively downtowns - More stable neighborhoods -Greater emphasis on municipal public services - modernism |
European Cities |
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International style architecture |
Modernism |
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- Largely similar to medieval European Cities. - Centrality of Mosques - Focus on interior spaces (courtyards) for shade and private household space - Rapid modern growth alongside the old cities |
Islamic Cities |
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- Marked by dualism - Challenges of urban growth |
Cities of the Periphery |
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- Modern capital cities, for business and administration - Rapid growth, large numbers of recent migrants living in informal housing (squatter settlements, slums, favelas - Informal sector economies - Positives and negatives of slums |
Dualism |
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- Urban congestion, infrastructure investment - Air pollution |
Challenges of urban growth |
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- Studies of political organization - Makeup and representation of voting districts and systems - Gerrymandering |
"The Geography of Politics" |
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Functions of Urban Settlements |
-Concentration of economic resources - Concentration of decision-making - Concentration of innovation,knowledge,info - Contrast to fixity of traditional rural settlement. - Alongside: Environmental consequences |
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The physical structure and organization of cities in their land use, layout, and built environment. |
Urban Form |
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The social and demographic composition of city districts and neighborhoods |
Urban Ecology |
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Hierarchical organization of cities, with central places offering more services to larger areas |
Central Place Theory |
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nth city is 1/n the population of the largest city. |
Rank-size rule - Exceptions |
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Largest city many times the size of the second or third largest cities. |
Primacy - London, Bangkok |
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Functional dominance of cities within urban system. |
Centrality |
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Cities as both vulnerable, implicated in carbon emissions, and sites where mitigation is possible |
Urban Ecological Perspectives Climate Change |
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Women particularly vulnerable to climate stress and disaster. |
Urban Ecological Perspectives Gender |
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Decline of core industrial cities |
Agglomeration diseconomies |
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- Brownfield sites - Amenity redevelopment - Gentrification |
Re-urbanization of some urban cores |
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- Centrality of some urban functions in a few high-level cities. - Overlapping roles: financial centers, business services, corporate HQ, Media etc |
World Cities - NYC, London, Paris, Toyko |
