HGP100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Gentrification, Customer Service, Housing First

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Important to describe and explain where people live, and in what numbers. Distribution of population densities tends to be consistent for all urban areas. Urban land values decrease with increasing distance for the city centre. Three classic models of the internal structure of urban areas. The central business district (cbd) at the centre. Followed by transitional area (original industries and older houses), Followed by residential (increasingly affluent with distance from cbd) Explicit use of physical space that derive from science. Ethnic groups identified only by area of origin. Response to criticism of concentric zone model (hoyt, 1939) Location of routes that radiate outward from the centre. Assumes that cities initially have a mix of land uses close to the centre, but that as growth occurs, each gravitates toward a particular sector. Based on models of us city growth. Incorporates a presence of several discrete centres in the urban area. Number of nuclei varies according to city size and development.

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