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AP Day 75

AP Day 75. Starter. What are some solutions that the movie offered to create more effective cities (transportation-wise)?. Galactic City (Peripheral) model by Harris. Created by Chauncey Harris (same guy in Harris-Ulman Multiple Nuclei Model) Suburbs spread outward from a declining CBD

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AP Day 75

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  1. AP Day 75

  2. Starter What are some solutions that the movie offered to create more effective cities (transportation-wise)?

  3. Galactic City (Peripheral) model by Harris • Created by Chauncey Harris (same guy in Harris-Ulman Multiple Nuclei Model) • Suburbs spread outward from a declining CBD • In the growing suburbs, functions of CBD begins to appear (mini-downtowns with hotels, malls, restaurants, and tall office complexes) • Mini-downtowns are called edge cities

  4. Urban Realms by James Vance • Large, late-twentieth-century US city • Each "realm" of the model is separate and used for a different purpose, • Realms linked together to make one large city. • Automobile-dependent, which enables it to be as large as necessary for that city's purposes.

  5. Megacities • A city area with over 10 million people • Most megacities are in China and other parts of Asia

  6. Article – The Problem of Megacities

  7. Transportation

  8. Borchert’s epochs of urban growth • Describes how urban growth changes based on transportation technology • Each era of transportation impacts shape, size, density, and spatial arrangement of cities • Model ends in 1970, but can be expanded to modern day

  9. Gravity Model • Places that are larger and closer together will have a greater interaction than places that are smaller and farther away • Dallas, Austin, Houston • Los Angeles, San Diego • Exceptions: outside factors such as tourism, religious sites or government centers will attract outsiders from all over the world, regardless of size or distance.

  10. Vox: How highways wrecked American citiesVox: The high cost of free parking

  11. Conclusion:Problems and Solutions

  12. Problems

  13. Fixes Sustainable Design • New Urbanism: mixed commercial/residential areas that are walkable • Greenbelts: an area of open land around a city, on which building is restricted • Slow-Growth Cities: cities that grow slowly rather than rapidly, have different policy issues than rapidly growing cities

  14. FRQ

  15. What is Central Place Theory?

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