GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Concentric Zone Model, Chinatown, Urban Decay
18 Jun 2020
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Urban area: the spatial extent of the built up area surrounding and including an incorporated municipality, such as a city; typically assessed by its population size and/or population density and/or nature of residents" employment. Demographic: exceeding some threshold of population and/or density. Urbanism: the urban way of life; associated with a declining sense of community and increasingly complex social and economic organization as a result of increasing population size, density, and heterogeneity. A social/cultural way of thinking about the city recall: the urban way of life (vs rural life) consider: attitudes, values, patterns of behaviour. Urbanism is an outcome of the process of urbanization. Urban change: understood with respect to two dimensions of growth: relative and absolute growth urban growth: an increase in the absolute size of an urban area/city. Key measures: an increase in the number of people. Alternative measure: an increase in the total area of land.
