SSM 106 GEOGRAPHY 3

(URBAN GEOGRAPHY)

Week 3 Prelimary Period

King Arnold C. Satsatin

College Instructor
 Lesson 2
Facts about
Urban
Geography
What is urban geography?
•It is the study of urban areas in
terms of concentration,
infrastructure, economy and
environmental impacts.
Questions to ponder:
•Why do cities exist?
•What are the factors that determine
where a city gets located?
•What are the main city layouts?
•How do cities change over time?
Facts about Urban Geography
• Most people live in cities today.
 Why people
want to live in
city?
• Cities are important function of country.
• The layout of cities also reveal clues to how
they function.
• Cities have a life cycle.
• People form strong attachments to cities.
Did you ever
fall in love in
a city?
Why people live in cities?
• Convenience
Why people live in cities?
• Economies of Agglomeration
Why people live in cities?
• Friction of Distance
Why people live in cities?
• Economies of Scale
What is a city?
•Village, town, city
City
•A city is a human settlement of a
notable size. It can be defined as
a permanent and densely settled
place with administratively
defined boundaries whose
members work primarily on non-
agricultural tasks.
Village
• a group of houses and other buildings that
is smaller than a town, usually in the countryside:
• a fishing village
• a mountain village
• a village shop
• a village green (= an area of grass in the middle of a
village)
• Many people come from
the outlying/surrounding villages to work in the town.
Town
•an urban area that has a
name, defined boundaries, and
local government, and that is
generally larger than a village
and smaller than a city.
Metropolis/Metropolitan
•Growth of suburbs, spread
cities and over large are
(including inner city and
suburbs around it)
Megapolis
•Megacity/megapolitan are
total population in excess
of 10 million.
Dubai
What is a city?
•Size (2,500 = urban)
•Population density > 1,000 per
mile
•Surface imperviousness
•Contiguity
Important
Concepts
1. Site
• Actual location of a settlement on earth and is
composed of the physical characteristics of
landscape to the area.
Factors:
• Landscape
• Climate
• Vegetation
• Availability of water
• Soil quality and Minerals
2. Situation
• Location of a settlement on earth and is
composed of a place relative to its
surroundings and other place.
Factors:
• Accessibility to location
• Extent of a place connection by another
Suburbs
• residential; district located on the outskirt of a city.
Principles:
•Less than 35 % of resident work
force must be engaged in
agriculture/fishing.
•At least 20% of working resident
commute to urban core.
City advantage
•Easy access to shopping, university,
hospital and medical care.
•More recreational activity.
•Job opportunities.
City disadvantage
•Crowded
•Air and noise pollution
•High crime rate
•High coast of living
Any Questions?