Chapter 3 - North American Urban System Flashcards
Scales
Global
National/Regional
Metropolitan
Globalization
The growing interdependence of countries through the increasing variety and volume of cross-boarder transactions in goods and services and international capital flows and through the rapid and widespread diffusion of technology
Primate City
Cities that concentrate a high degree of the entire national population or of national political, intellectual, or economic life (e.g. Paris, France or Bangkok, Thailand).
Gateway City
Cities that served as a link between one country or region and others because of physical location (Vancouver, Sydney, New York)
World City
Centres of the world economy, places where critical decision making and interaction take place with regard to global economic, political, cultural issues
Example of Primate Cities
Paris
Bangkok
Example of Gateway Cities
Vancouver
Sydney
New York
Example of World Cities
London
Tokyo
New York
Types of Cities
Primate City
Gateway City
World City
Biggest US urban areas by population
New York
Los Angeles
Chicago
Vance’s Mercantile Cities Model Date
1970
Vance’s Mercantile Cities Model Stages
- Exploration
- Harvesting of Natural Resources
- Emergence of Farm-based Staple Production
- Emergence of Interior Gateway Cities
Walter Christaller (1873-1969)
Developed Central Place Theory
Central Place Theory
Attempts to answer the relationship between cities and their hinterlands across a hypothetical isotropic plain.
Hinterland
the region to which any city provides services, and upon which it draws for its needs
