GEO 101 World Human Geography
Spring 2008
Urbanization and Central Places

Two ways to look at cities

• Urban Systems
• Urban Morphology (or form)

What is Urbanization?

Primate Cities, World Cities, and Megacities

Urbanization in the Core

Urbanization in the Periphery

• Overurbanization
• Squatter Settlements
  

Where cities are located

Site Factors

Situation

Walter Christaller's (1933) Central Place Theory: A Consumption-Based Explaination for City Location

• Assumptions of the CPT model
• Range and Threshold of goods and services
  • high-order vs. Low-order goods and services
• Patterns based on threshold and range