Cities and Metropolitan Areas

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Cities and Metropolitan Areas

• GEOG 441 Introduction

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Introduction

• Syllabus
• Members of Class
• Course Themes Projects
• Lecture Urban Morphology

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Urban Morphology

• Urban Form
• Townscape
• Morphogenesis

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Townscape

• Basic building blocks
• lot/ land organization
• placement of streets

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Savannah Streetscape (1734)
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Morphogenesis
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Morphology of Three Colonial Cities

• Three regions with different economies, social
  worlds, and political cultures
• New England
• Mid-Atlantic
• South

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Atlantic Trading World Mercantile Economy
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Character of Colonies

• New England 1620s Puritan merchants
• Mid-Atlantic mid-1600s English Common Law
• South late 1600s Plantation based agriculture
  manorial system

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New England Townscape

• Organic oriented to port functions other
  topographic features (Ex. Boston Portland,
  Portsmouth)
• Bastidal European new towns egalitarian land
  assignment orthogonal plan (Ex. New Haven,
  Cambridge)

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Bastide European New Towns

• Salisburys
• chequers

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New England - Boston

• Organic Design response to the topography
  priorities of use
• Port town oriented to water wharfs
• Functional lay-out and land use patterns (Ex.
  the commons)

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Quincy Market - Wharfs
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Quincy Market Faneuil Hall
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Boston Commons
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Mid-Atlantic - Philadelphia

• American Grid
• Land speculators model
• Egalitarian bastide
• influence plus London Rebuilt

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Grid Pattern Town - Planned

• Surveyed in 1682

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Penns Plan

• a greene country town
• a great towne selling lots to British
  speculators land sale rather than land use
  determined the form
• Laid out one mile X two
• Town squares for public use

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