The characteristics of urban areas
- Created by: Abbie Roberts
- Created on: 20-05-13 14:12
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- The characteristics of urban areas
- Functions
- Most people argue that activities located in urban areas are the root source of all characteristics
- Residence is a major land use, accounting for well over half of built up areas
- Manufacturing used to be the core function of MEDCs until deindustrialisation and the global shift taken from the NICs and RICs, have changed that.
- The most lucrative of economic activities fall within the tertiary and quaternary sectors. The provision of a range of services, not just for the urban inhabitants themselves, generates many jobs and a lot of capital
- Manufacturing used to be the core function of MEDCs until deindustrialisation and the global shift taken from the NICs and RICs, have changed that.
- Not all functions are 'economic' eg, Recreation. Urban areas tend to have sports stadiums, swimming pools, leisure and shopping centres.
- Patterns
- Similar activities and types of people tend to cluster together, sorting out land uses eg, The CBD, edge city and instustrial estates
- The general age of the urban area decreases from the centre because towns and cities grow from a historical nucleus
- Density of development decreases as a town/city grows, its fringe expands
- Urban areas all show the same basic components-A core, a suburban ring and a rural fringe.
- Activities and groups differ in terms of what they can afford.
- Physical geography determines where to build-slopes, rivers, flood plains, etc.
- Processes
- Processes can be centralising (attracting people to an urban area) or decentralising (pushing people out of urban areas)
- Centralising-Agglomeration, regeneration & suburban intensification
- Decentralising-Counter-urbanisation and suburbanisation
- Functions
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