Supporting Materials

32-100 Discover Geography

VI: Settlements

 

 

Types of Rural Settlement
Definitions of Urban
U.S. Census Geography (paper)
Jean Gottman's Megalopolis
Spread of Cities
World's Largest Cities 100 A.D. 
World's Largest Cities 900 A.D.
 World's Largest Cities 1600
 World's Largest Cities 1700
 World's Largest Cities 1800
 World's Largest Cities 1900
 World's Largest Cities 1975
 World's Largest Cities 2015

 

 Urbanization of the U.S., 1790-2000
 U.S. Residential Preferences (Gallup Poll)
 Urbanization of Four Countries
 U.S. Metropolitan Population, 1900-2000
 Concentric Zone Model
 Urban Realms Model
Component Parts of US Metro. Areas, 2000
 US Central Cities vs. Rest of Metro. Areas, 1900-2000
Component Parts of Metro. Pittsburgh, 2000
 Population of Pittsburgh (City)
 Population of Pittsburgh (Metro Area)
 Commuting Flows in Atlanta Metro. Area

 

 Pittsburgh Neighborhoods
 Some Actors in the Urban Land Use Market
 Vacancy Chains
 The Index of Dissimilarity
 Age-Sex Structure of Pittsburgh Tract 707
 Age-Sex Structure of Pittsburgh Tract 302
 Age-Sex Structure of Sewickley Hills
 Age-Sex Structure of Pittsburgh Tract 508
 Age-Sex Structure of Churchill Tract 5190

 

 U.S. Transport Technology, 1800-1960
 U.S. Transport Technology, 1940-1993
 A Model of Transport Development
 America's Largest Cities, 1790
 America's Largest Cities, 1850
 America's Largest Cities, 1910
 America's Largest Cities, 1950
 America's Largest Metro Areas, 2000

 

 Link to "Central Place Theory"
 Central Place Theory: Concepts and Diagrams
 Reilly's Law of Retail Gravitation

 

 Evolution of American Cities
 Transit Rides per Person
 U.S. Motor Vehicles per 1,000 Persons, 1900-2000
 Travel in Metropolitan Areas
 Some Common Forms of Layout

 

Link to Archaeology of Five Points Neighborhood in New York
Link to Tenement House Museum in New York City
Sequent Occupance of Harlem
The Communication Revolution and Older Metropolitan Areas (paper)
Mental Maps

 

Link to "Urban Land Use" Module
Typology of Commercial Centers
Central Business District
Skyscrapers
Planned Shopping Centers (graph)
Planned Shopping Centers (paper)
Factory Outlet Malls (paper)

 

Cities in Western Europe
 London
Population of London
The London Region
Tokyo
Population of Tokyo
St. Petersburg and Moscow
Population of Moscow
Some Soviet City Planning Principles
Soviet Residential Hierarchy
Spanish Royal Ordinances for the Laying Out of New Towns (text)
Cities in Latin America
Model of Latin American City Structure
Mexico City
Population of Mexico City

Materials for Section I: Introduction

Materials for Section II: Population

Materials for Section III: Political Geography

Materials for Section IV: Culture

Materials for Section V: Economic Activities

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