URBS 150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Daniel Burnham, Nature Reserve
19 Oct 2016
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The metropolis and its expansion; early insights and basic principles . Growth of industry, development of jobs, concentration of capital, and emergence of key transportation routes all contribute to the creation of settlement in urban areas. Major institutions, financial enterprises, major retail stores: form the core of the city. Difference in metropolitan areas some places have high cost of land(center), and low on others(fringes). Land acquires its value from the competition for it. Theory of competition = those that won out in the competition generally were the most powerful and the most able to pay a pretty penny for the land. Zone of transition = where residential settlements began to appear among the commercial ones. Area where railroad stations of the metropolis lay. Zone of commuters: lived in tenements (close to factories, inhabitants who took the train day and night.
