GEOG 3205 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Edge City, Creative Class, Social Disorganization Theory
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Agglomeration economy: similar businesses in the same area, allowing the businesses to take advantage of the surrounding infrastructure (highways, water systems, etc. ) Creative class: new socio-economic class that creates ideas and innovations. Colonial mercantilism: colonial cities as trading centers for exporting raw materials to europe. Edge cities and techno-burbs: edge cities. High daytime population, low nighttime population: technoburb: work & residence contained within a single, decentralized environment. Industrialization: the manufacture of textiles, steel & chemicals. 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.