Major North American Conurbations

1
Major North American Conurbations
BOSWASH
2

• Central Business District

3
Historical development of urban areas
4
Concentric Ring
5

• Proxy variables

• Census Tract

6
Sector

• Sector Model

• Invasion and Succession

7
Late 1800s to WWII
8

• Multiple Nuclei Model

• Gentrification

• Suburbanization

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Population of the MSA
10
1800s
1920s
1950s
HI
HI
HI
Population Density
LO
LO
LO
CBD
CBD
CBD
11
HUNT VALLEY
TOWSON
OWINGS MILLS
RANDALLSTOWN
ESSEX
DUNDALK
CATONSVILLE
MULTIPLE NUCLEI Edge Cities Stealth Cities
COLUMBIA
GLEN BURNIE
12
1980s
Garreau - - - - -

• Edge Cities
• Stealth City

13
1900
1990
HI
LO
CBD
14
Primary area of Baltimores urban underclass
HI
LO
CBD

• Slums

• Urban Underclass