GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Urban Land, Land Values, High Tech
31 May 2018
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May 28, 2018- Lecture 7A
Urban Cities and Urban Hierarchies
- Consider the roles/functions of urban centres:
o Urban centres are places which consume food and other goods and services
o Places which process and produce goods and materials
o Places that distribute goods and services
- In doing so, urban centres are functionally connected to other urban centres and to the
surrounding non-urban (rural) areas
- Many of the connections between urban centres are related to their absolute (site) and
relative (situation) locations
Introduction to the Centrality of Places
- Given:
o situatioal loatios or ura etres; ad
o Interconnected functions of urban centres (i.e. producers, consumers, and
distributors of goods and services)
- Then:
o Urban centres do not function independently
- Urban centres do not function independently: they are interconnected with other
centres in a system
o Each urban centre
We can use central place theory to explain the spatial distribution of urban centres with respect
to their size and function
- Urban centres compete with one another via the range of goods and services they
provide
- And they are located in such a way as to maximize their accessibility to the largest
possible range of consumers
- These are central places: urban centres that provide goods and services to the
surrounding population; may take the form of a hamlet, village, town, city, or megacity
- The area in which a central place competes with its neighbours over customers is a
hinterland: i) the market area surrounding a central place, ii) the spatial area from
which the providers of goods and services in a central place draw their customers (
o i.e.hamlet: gas, good, general store
o megacity: necessities plus theatres, professional sports team, stock exchange,
universities, etc.
o hiterlad o’t:
▪ greater diversity of goods and services (and more specialized they are) a
central place provides= greater the size of its hinterland
• consider New York vs Hamilton vs Guelph vs Shakespeare
▪ eah etral plae’s hiterlad is proportioal to its size, ad its
assortment of goods and services
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Document Summary
Consider the roles/functions of urban centres: urban centres are places which consume food and other goods and services, places which process and produce goods and materials, places that distribute goods and services. In doing so, urban centres are functionally connected to other urban centres and to the surrounding non-urban (rural) areas. Many of the connections between urban centres are related to their absolute (site) and relative (situation) locations. Given: (cid:862)situatio(cid:374)al(cid:863) lo(cid:272)atio(cid:374)s or ur(cid:271)a(cid:374) (cid:272)e(cid:374)tres; a(cid:374)d. Interconnected functions of urban centres (i. e. producers, consumers, and distributors of goods and services) Then: urban centres do not function independently. Urban centres do not function independently: they are interconnected with other centres in a system: each urban centre. We can use central place theory to explain the spatial distribution of urban centres with respect to their size and function. Urban centres compete with one another via the range of goods and services they provide.
