Megalopolis

Metropolianists

-20th century cities would maintain 19th century form -enven with pop & spatial growth

Megalopolis Places

-New York:Northern New Jersey: Long Island -Washington: Baltimore -Philadelphia: Wilmington: Atlantic City -Boston: Worcester: Lawrence

Megalopolis Places Fall Line Cities

-Newark -Trenton -Philadelphia -Baltimore -Richmond -Washington D.C -Rapids & falls -cities on border of Piedmont & Atlantic

Patterns of Change

-agriculture: taken over by suburbs/ specialty crops -land prices: lands costing so much money (especially along transportation routs) -channelized development: hear/ along highways

megalopolis (m)

-any many-centered, multi-city, urban area of more than 10 million inhabitants, generally dominated by law-density settlement & complex networks of economic specialization -FORM=LARGE -multitude of major nodes

How did megalopolis occur?

-colonial settlements on the Atlantic seaboard...coalesced into villages, cities, urban areas -urbanness: the dominant theme -comprised of 10 major metropolitan areas of over one million people & numerous smaller cities -a region of international significance

What matters most?

-economic activity -transportations -community -communication linkages

Major Components of Megalopolis:

1. Spacial Integration 2. Functional Complexity 3. Public Services 4. Accessibility 5. Intensity of Change

Ginsu Guardrails

dangerous guardrails: sharp edges (decapitated people)

Public Services

police protection, public schools, healthcare

Intensity of Change

rapid change of built landscape

Ruburbs

residential/ mixed in farmland

Exburbs

settlement outside of suburbs (much farther out)

Spacial Integration

transportation between places

Population

year : people/square mile 1960 Megalopolis : 700 Average US : 51 2010 Megalopolis : 930 Average US : 91

Functional Complexity

cost of land goes up valuable

Accessibility

creation/maintenance of transportation systems

"Main Street of the Nation": Megalopolitan area of Bos Wash is a:

-government center, banking center, media center, academic center, until recently, the immigration center -above means that: space of places(physical distribution of but environment), spaces of flows(set of connections that link places via grasportaion systems & business)

Peloponnese Peninsula

-megalopolis derived from Greek -means "very large city" or "great city"

Regionalists

-radical shift from mono centric metropolis towards more dispersed network over vast area -multinucleated -integrated

Megalopolis (M)

-refers to a specific place in the world NE Seaborg -early 1930s