Key Issue 1: Why Do Services Cluster Downtown?

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Key Issue 1: Why Do Services Cluster Downtown?

1 Chapter 13 Urban Patterns Introducing: Urban Patterns (p.460)

Key Issue 1: Why Do Services Cluster Downtown?

• CBD Land Uses

• Public Services in the CBDs

• Business Services in CBDs

• Consumer Servies in CBDs

• Retailers with a High Threshold

• Retailers with a High Range

• Retailers Serving Downtown Workers

• Activities Excluded From CBDs

• Lack of Manufacturing in CBDs

• Lack of Residents in CBDs

• Competition for Land in the CBD

• 2 Chapter 13 Urban Patterns • Identify Food Deserts

• The Underground CBD

• Skyscrapers

Key Issue 2: Where Are People Distributed within Urban Areas?

• Models of Urban Structure

• Concentric Zone and Figure

• Sector Model and Figure

• Sector Model (cont.)

• Multiple Nuclei Model and Figure 3 Chapter 13 Urban Patterns •

• Geographic Applications of the Models

• Applying the concentric zone model

• Applying the sector model

• Applying the multiple nuclei model

• Market Segmentation: You Are Where You Live

• Applying the Models Outside North America

• CBDs in Europe

• Applying the Models in Europe

• Sectors in European Cities 4 Chapter 13 Urban Patterns •

• Concentric Zones in European Cities

• Applying the Models in Developing Countries

• Sectors in Cities of Developing Countries

• Concentric Zones in Cities of Developing Countries

• Squatter settlements

• Figure 13-18

• Stages of Cities in Developing Countries

• Precolonial Cities

• Colonial Cities

• Cities Since Independence 5 Chapter 13 Urban Patterns •

Key Issue 3: Why Are Urban Areas Expanding?

• Suburban Expansion

• The Peripheral Model

• Defining Urban Settlements

• Legal Definition of City

• Urban Area

• urbanized area

• urban cluster

• Metropolitan Statistical Area

• micropolitan statistical areas

• core based statistical areas

• primary census statistical areas

• Overlapping Metropolitan Areas 6 Chapter 13 Urban Patterns •

• Figure 13-28

• Local Government Fragmentation

• Consolidations of city and county governments

• Federations

• Annexation

• Density Gradient

• Cost of Suburban Sprawl

• smart growth

• Figure 13-32

• Segregation in the Suburbs

• Segregated social classes

• Segregated land uses 7 Chapter 13 Urban Patterns • Residential Segregation

• Suburbanization of Businesses

• Suburbanization of Consumer Services

• Figure 13-34

• Suburbanization of Business Services and Factories

• Urban Transportation

• Moter Vehicles

• Controlling Vehicles

• congestion charges

• tolls

• permits

• bans 8 Chapter 13 Urban Patterns •

• Public Transit

• Public Transit in the United States

• Rapid Transit

• Public Transit in Other Countries

• Advantages of Public Transit

• The Cars of the Future

• Diesel

• Hybrid

• Ethanol

• Full Electric

• Plug-In Hybrid

• Hydrogen Fuel Cell

• Regional Variations in Electricity

• 9 Chapter 13 Urban Patterns • Figure 13-41

Key Issue 4: Why Do Cities Face Challenges

• Changing Urban Physical Geography

• The Process of Deterioration

• Filtering

• Redlining

• Public Housing

• Gentrification

• Changing Urban Social Geography

• Underclass

• Culture of Poverty

• 10 Chapter 13 Urban Patterns • Suburban Stress

• Figure 13-45

• Figure 13-46

• Urban Economic Geography Challenges

• The Eroding Tax Base

• Reduce services

• Raise tax revenues

• The Impact of the Recession

• Figure 13-47

• Reviving Consumer Services in the CBD

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