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
