Urban Systems and City Forms

Urban Systems
(Defined)
 Urban settlements of different hierarchies that exist within
different levels regional, national, transnational, global.
 Display interdependence amongst the hierarchy and regions.

FLOWS

•People
•Goods
•Information
•Investments
•Ideas
•innovation
 Historical Trajectory of Urban Systems
Sanitation
Water air,waste,
transport,
toxics,climatecha
Urban Issues Sanitation nge,
Sanitation Water air,waste, food,global
Water Transport,toxics, terrorism
Sanitation Sanitation air,waste, climatechange,
water Water transport food
Air

City Early Mature Advanced Cyber/network

Mercantile
Type Industrial Industrial Industrial cities

Urban Technology

Coal Digital,
indegen Automobile Nano,
Steam Electronics
eous electricity biotech
steel Aviation

1800 1850 1900 1950 2000

 Factors affecting the form of cities
• (i) Surplus Resources (ii) Industrialization and
Commercialization (iii) Development of
Transport and Communication (iv) Economic
Pull of the City (v) Educational and
Recreational Facilities.
Contemporary City Dynamics
 Classification of Landuse

Qualitative
attributes of
Formal Landuse space

Form, Pattern
Geographic aspects

Functional
Spatial
Landuse accumulation
of activities

Production, consumption,
residence, transport
 Post Industrialization City Structures
Sector:
Lateral extension of cities in wedge
shape pattern

Multiple nuclei Dispersed pattern

Several low hierarchy centers Urban explosive growth as islands
surrounded by residential uses
separated by agricultural areas.
Transport and City Landuse
City Morphology
Network Patterns
in developing and
developed
country context
Urban Spatial Structure
 Urban Mobility Network Design

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