Topic #4

  1. Urban firm and the social geography of the city

  • neighborhoods

  • Housing markets submarkets

  • Impact that suburbanization and urban sprawl

  • Inner city areas

  • Jobs housing keel you attached to where you live

  • Gentrification

  • Positionally in geography

  • Housing crisis in Canada

  • Studentification

  • New topic in literature

  • Studies of universities in Canada

  • Places commercial or industrial activity

  • Transportation and communication technology

  • Challenges of plan cities less developed worlds

  • Social planners


  1. explaining urban form

  • variations over time and space

  • Cities divers share commonality diverse

  • Cultural and economic core

  • Suburbs and informal settlements

  • First tier cities more than one million example Vancouver

  • Second tier less than one million example Calgary Edmonton

  • Central business district


  1. Urban structure

  • Urban experience urban structure

  • Common land use example recreational

  • Generalizing patterns

  • High debsity Centre low density periphery

  • land costs higher cost at centre

  • building vertically in suburbs

  • Dint need homes with examples for bedrooms we are having less kids that our parents did


  1. Figure picture

  • Figure urban land values

  • Some of the highest land values in Canada exit in Vancouver

  • Circus tent diagram


  1. Modelling North America city

  • three classics models

  • Concentric zone ex Chicago Illinois

  • midwestern or industrial North American cities from the early-to-mid 20th century (such as parts of Detroit, Cleveland, or St. Louis) historically displayed basic concentric-like features—though real-world geography, rivers, and highways often distorted the neat circles

  • Distance important

  • Sector model ex Calgary, Alberta

  • Direction important

  • Multiple nuclei ex Los Angeles, London, and Sydney

  • Influenced by suburbanization gentrification

  • Different types of centres

  • Attract and repel dufferebt activities

  • Models by sociologist psychologist economist


  1. Figure on whites model of twenty first century city

  • newer city model for North America cities

  • Still a core

  • Zone in stagnations

  • Axial circumference highways

  • Minority groups

  • Increasing SES

  • Epicenter

  • Corridor

  • Rail line

  • Aspects don’t apply to all Canadian cities


  1. Models lasting America

  • Spanish colonial influence reshaped culture, religion, language, and governance across the Americas and the Philippines over more than three centuries of rule.