GEOG 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Central Place Theory, Edge City, Sub-Saharan Africa

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8 Jan 2019
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Urban pattern refers to the location of cities across a country or state, the arrangement by size (population) of cities on the landscape. This will also refer to the arrangement of cities by their function(s). * the arrangement will often follow a pattern predicted by the idea of. Central place theory & christaller"s work on this topic, so you can refer back to that topic from lecture 15. * central place theory can be used to determine the relationship between cities of differing size, the rank-size rule. * it also relates the idea that most countries or states have only one very large city or megacity, a few large cities, more smaller cities or towns, & a lot of small towns or villages. Ex: in the u. s. the largest city is new york (~24 million in the. New york msa), 2nd is los angeles (~18), 3rd is chicago (~10),

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