GPHY 101 Chapter 11: CHAPTER 11 TXT NOTES.docx

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Joyce Davidson

Document Summary

The typical north american city is structured around a central business district (cbd), a transitional zone, suburbs, secondary business districts and commercial strips, industrial districts and in larger metropolitan areas, edge cities. The cbd is walled by zones in transition that has a mixture of growth, change and decline. The internal organization of cities reflects the way that they function (how they sort people into neighbourhoods and functional subareas as well as bring people and activities together) The overall structure of north american cities is shaped primarily by competition for territory and location. Commercial and industrial as well as residential land users all compete for the most convenient and accessible locations within a city. Cities experiencing high rates of in-migration tend to become structured into a series of zones or neighbourhoods due to different ethnicity, demographic composition and social status through process of invasion and succession. Congregation is the territorial and residential clustering of specific groups or subgroups of people.