Todays Agenda

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Todays Agenda

• Nov 5 textbook return
• Test 2
• Review
• Manufacturing, multipliers and leakage of growth
  impulses
• Urban economic spatial structure
• Urban system concept
• Central Place Theory

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Test 2

• Wednesday, November 3
• Chapters 5-8 of Wheeler et al.
• All lectures since October 8
• Format same as Test 1
• M/C 40
• FiB 20
• S/A 40

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Chasing Smoke stacks

• Basic activity is NOT just manufacturing!
• Manufacturing does have a relatively high
  multiplier effect (interindustry)
• But leakages can be huge
• In and out!
• Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica S.A.
• EMBRAER

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Embraer
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Urban Economic Structure

• Classic models of urban land use
• Concentric zone
• Sectoral
• Multiple nuclei
• Centripetal Forces-reinforce centrality

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Urban Economic Structure

• Centrifugal Forces-deconcentration
• Residential suburbanization
• nothing new!
• e.g. New Town, Edinburgh
• Brand new middle class suburb, 1767

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1767-1820
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New Town

• No urban poor
• No nobility
• Georgian era

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Old Town Edinburgh from New Town
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Urban Economic Structure

• But residential suburbanization in North America
  was unprecedented in some ways
• Sprawl and low density
• Auto dependence
• Rapidity of development
• Homogeneity (?)
• Edge Cities Multinucleation
• Suburban employment, commercial, industrial,
  office space
• Back office to front office

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City Systems

• Cities as systems
• within systems of cities
• Hierarchical system structure
• Size
• Population
• Income
• Function
• Classification according to dominant industry
• Power and extent of influence