City Models
Based on 1920s Chicago this model observes that a city grows outward from the CBD and is organized in a series of rings.
What is Burgess Concentric Rings Model?
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Often the most accessible and economically important part of a city.
What is the central business district?
In 1950 NY and Tokyo were the only cities which had over 10 million people in their metropolitan area qualifying them as:
What are megacities?
Describing minorities or lower socioeconomic classes being disproportionately exposed to pollution and environmental hazards.
What is environmental injustice?
When cities expand in an unplanned and uncontrolled way covering large expanses of land in development.
What is urban sprawl?
This model illustrates that a city grows outward from CBD usually along transit routes and is organized in wedges.
What is the Hoyt Sector Model?
Cities provide this to help move people around cities without their need to drive private vehicles.
What is public transportation?
Based on influence not size these cities have influence over their region or even the world due to financial, media, and government importance.
What are world or global cities?
Movement advocating for historic preservation, multiple transit options and respect for local ecology.
What is New Urbanism?
Government seizing private property to meet a public need or good.
What is eminent domain?
Model developed after the rising importance of cars and accounts for edge cities and multiple CBDs.
What is the Galactic City Model?
Areas outside the city that have grown to often include their own business, retail, and industrial areas.
What are edge cities?
Due to the tremendous growth of cities this term was coined to describe metropolitan areas of over 20 million people.
What are metacities?
Practice of identifying and developing vacant lots and unused spaces.
What is infill?
In some countries this type of city is vastly larger and of greater importance than any other city in the country, for example, Mexico City or Jakarta.
What is a primate city?
Represents cities that historically grew around ports and lacked a defined CBD.
What is the Southeast Asian city model?
These networks initially focused on things like telephone landlines and in more modern times have emphasized cell towers and fiber optic cables.
What are Communication Networks?
This form of internal migration is a major factor in the growth of cities including in peripheral countries.
What is rural-to-urban migration?
Areas that have been contaminated by industry and pollution.
What are brownfields?
When a bank or lending institution refuses to provide home loans for a certain area in a city.
What is redlining?
Model observed that most US cities do not form in rings or wedges but instead in multiple focal points or nodes.
What is the Harris-Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model?
Legal rights society has determined for land including who has the right to use the land, for what purpose, and for how long.
What is land tenure?
This part of the world has seen the greatest and fastest growth of cities.
What is Asia (China and India particularly)
Cities given large government grants to tear down and rebuild crumbling or abandoned areas.
What is urban renewal?
Idea that the size of cities will align in relation to the other cities in the country, for example the 2nd largest city in a country will be roughly 1/2 the size of the largest city.
What is rank-size rule.