GEOG 3205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Urban Sprawl, Urban Planner, Edge City
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Cities may fit into several models based on the time; cities are dynamic. Burgess"s concentric zone model: the crime levels decrease and wealth levels increase as you go further away from the central business district, the central business district drives urban change. Harris & ullman"s multiple nuclei model: cities grow around multiple distinct nodes (religious core, industrial core, business core, government core, etc. , cores require different amenities and have different users. La school of urbanism: los angeles did not fit into any one distinct model, global investment is the driving factor in urban change, not people making decisions, keno capitalism. Global development based on grid system of keno , which works like. Each land parcel is chosen seemingly randomly, and then it affects the areas around it: edge cities. Cities developing on the edge of larger cities at transportation nodes. Large amounts of office and retail space.