GEO 793 Study Guide - Final Guide: Urban Renewal, Picket Fences, Entertainment Center
13 Mar 2014
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Understanding 21st century urban structure: sustainability, unevenness, and uncertainty. Issues that contemporary cities face include: sustainability: deals with pollution and removing pollutants, unevenness: pertains to the inequality both within and between cities, uncertainty: refer to the instability generated by intensification of economic competitions, propelled by globalization. 6 properties in understanding the urban phenomenon include: production, reproduction, proximity, capitalization, place, municipal/urban governance. Vast resources invested to accommodate agglomerations of residents, businesses and services: since urban land is a scarce resource, it becomes the object of substantial capital investment so its use can be maximized, capitalization influenced by engineering possibilities. Obstacles to urban environment adaptability: the symbiosis that bind patterns of behavior to built environments: ex. All about subjective attachment to a certain area. ** the above factors have portrayed a horizontal view of cities. The following is a vertical view of how and why cities evolved to their present form. Production: manufacturing is a major source of employment in many cities.
