Topic 6.

2, Daily Video 1, Cities Across the World

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Urbanization: Global Trend
● Rate of Urbanization: Increasing from 1 million to 4 million +

● Pull Factors: Jobs & Healthcare

● Megacities: cities with 10 million or more residents

● Metacities: sprawling urban areas with more than 20 million residents

Growth of Megacities
● Where in 1950? New York 12.3 million residents, Chicago 4.9 million residents
● Where in 2000? New York 16.6 million residents, Los Angeles 13.1 million residents
● Where in 2015? New York 17.4 million residents, Los Angeles 13.1 million residents

What is the connection between urbanization and poverty?

People that live in poverty go to the cities to find more opportunities and jobs, causing less poverty. But there
are strains on urbanization. For periphery becoming semi-periphery countries resources may become scarce,
such as availability of water, food, and sanitation.

Takeaways:
Significance of geographic similarities and differences among different locations and/or at different times.:
1. Transportation
2. Housing production
3. Landscape preferences
4. Social and demographic trends

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Topic 6.2, Daily Video 2, Cities Across the World

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Edge Cities
● What is the connection between edge cities and bid-rent theory?
Edge Cities are CBDs and the closer you get, the higher cost of land. This is due to business being high in this
area. The closer to businesses and cities, the higher the price of land due to companies competing for that land
to maximize profits.

Urban Sprawl - unrestricted growth in urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large
expanse of land
● Connection with transportation
○ More roads need to be built to move people out to these areas, mass transportation must also be
built in these areas as Urban Sprawl occurs
● Suburban Growth
○ Boomburbs - rapidly growing suburban cities that represent a new metropolitan form

○ Why edge cities?

■ Edge cities provide many different things, from this, boomburbs can prosper. Edge
cities’ office space, different opportunities and transportation allow boomburbs to function.
They are key factors in maintaining a boomburb.

■ Exurbs - prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs

Pause and Practice: FRQ- spatial organization of commercial land use

B. Describe TWO ways that the spatial organization of commercial land use is different between the original
central business district (CBD) and an edge city.

Takeaways:
• Exurb
Prosperous residential districts beyond the suburbs
• Boomburbs
Rapidly growing suburban cities that represent a new metropolitan form

• Edge city
economic center on the fringe of a city with an extensive amount of office and retail space, typically near a
major road

• Megacity/Metacity
Cities with 10 million/20 million+ residents

• Urban sprawl
unrestricted growth in urban areas of housing, commercial development, and roads over large expanse of land