Cities, Globalization, and Urban Hierarchy (6.2 - 6.4)

Cities, Globalization, and Urban Hierarchy

Multiple Choice

Review:

What is Urban Hierarchy?

• A ranking of rural areas based on size
• A type of urban planning method
• Ranking of urban areas based on population

City with population of at least 10 million people ...

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Megacities

City with population of at least 20 million ...

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Common examples: New York & Tokyo

Metacities

But wait a second ...

Does New York City really have 20 million people???

Look it up and find out ...

How do we define a city?

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Let's talk about terminology, and why it can be confusing ...

Legal Definition of 'City'

Higher-density area with clearly drawn territory inside officially recognized political boundaries.

However, there's another way to think about cities!

Multiple Choice

What is a metropolitan area?

• A metropolitan area is a region with no urban development

• A region with only one densely populated urban core

• A rural region with minimal population density.

• A region with a densely populated urban center and lots of surrounding cities

Collection of adjacent cities economically connected, across which population density is high and continuous. Most large cities today are really large metro areas.

Metropolitan (metro) Areas

List of "Cities" in Houston

• Sugar Land

• The Woodlands

• Baytown

• Conroe

• Galveston

• Texas City

• More ...

A large chain of connected cities that are essentially one long metropolitan area.

Examples:

Boston - New York

Los Angeles - San Francisco

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Megalopolis - An enormous Metro Area

• financial and corporate centers of the world

• Key players in the global economy

World Cities

City Vocabulary!

Describes one way to rank cities by size.

- The second largest city will he half the size of the largest.
- The third largest city will be one third as large.

Rank-Size Rule

If the largest city in a country has 30 Million people, the second largest city might have _____?

The third largest city might have _____?

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For example ...

• Countries that follow the rank-size rule are generally considered to be more well developed.

• The rank-size rule also states that higher-order services, like hospitals, have larger ranges and thresholds (limits)

• That's it! Let's move on

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A city that has fallen into the hands of the Apes in the great human-ape war.

Primate City

If the largest city (or metro area) in a country is more than twice as large as the second largest city, it is called a primate city.

Just kidding

Realtors convinced many white people to sell their homes (in cities) at low prices out of fear that racial minorities would soon be moving into their neighborhood.

​Blockbusting

Starting in the 1950s and 60s, a large number of people (largely white people) began moving out of urban areas and into suburbs. Why?

White Flight

Suburbanization

Review!

Multiple Choice

What is a primate city?

• A chain of large cities that makes a continuous metropolitan area

• A fortified ape stronghold. We are losing this war ...

• Twice as big as the second largest city in a country

Multiple Choice

What is the rank-size rule?

• The second largest city is a primate city

• The second largest city is twice as big as the largest

• The second largest city is half as big as the largest

Open Ended

Describe a world city and list one example:

Multiple Choice

What does the rank-size rule state about higher order services?

• Higher order services, like hospitals, have large range and thresholds (limits). They are balanced within rank-size cities.

• Higher order services are only found in small cities
• Higher order services are randomly distributed in cities

Reorder

Which planet of the apes movie was best?

• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

• War for the Planet of the Apes

• Rise of the Planet of the Apes

• The new one that's coming out this year, I can't remember what it's called.

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Fill in the Blank

A ___________ is an enormous dense urban chain of large cities that makes one long metropolitan area.