GGRC45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Placemaking, Urban Realm, Yonge-Dundas Square
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The endless city: bigness, spectacle and the postmetropolis. Mexico city, grew from a lake since the aztecs. Newspaper for primary challenges of the city. **most of the demographic, economic and spatial growth of cities and regions is occurring in the peripheries of existing agglomerations** The recent changes in suburban landscapes are challenging the ideas that the urban scholars have had on what the core, periphery"s real function really is. Burgess concentric circle model: burgess"s model on how the cities grow, this model had a huge impression on how geographers think about how cities grow. The way the economy worked within the city. That all activities can be neatly structured in different zones: emphasis on the core, the important part of the city as suppose to the periphery, however, this is being challenged today. Urban landscapes are becoming more homogenous and population become heterogeneous: hallmark of regional urbanization.