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Part I
WHAT IS A CITY?
Geography 1050
The Geography of Cities
In the ‘FertileCrescent’, the Valley of theTigris and Euphrates
in what is nowIraq
during the4th millennium BC
Cities have been ‘invented’ several times
In the Nile Valleyca. 3000 BC
In the Indus Valleyof Pakistanca 2500 BC
Other Places of Urban ‘Invention’
• The Yangtze Valley, ca 2000 BC
• The Americas: Inca ca 800 AD
Aztec ca 600 AD
Manchu Picchu., c. 2002. Evidence of urbanization here beginning at least 800 AD.
Roman Empire
Inca Empire
The morphology of citieshas changed dramatically
over the millennia,
AthensFourth Century
BC
Rome in the 2nd Century AD
Gustav Dore’s View of London 1878
Canary Wharf, Isle of Dogs, London
Timbouktou, Mali
Timbouktou, MaliA UNESCOWorld Heritage Site
Sankore Mosque/University
Djingareiber Mosque
Centre of learning by 965 AD
Multiple urban origins, similar functions
• Cities have always served more of less the same functions, providing sites of
– Defense
– Places of worship
– Education
– Fostering of culture
– Administration
– Shelter
– Production and Consumption
• Processes/Properties of the City (manual, p. 89) – Production
– Reproduction
– Proximity
– Capitalization
– Sense of Place
– Governance
Four Ways of DefiningThe City
1. Social - Demographic 2. Functional or Economic3. Legal or Administrative4. Statistical
Definition 1: Social - Demographic
• A city can is a human settlement A city can is a human settlement that is: that is: – Large Large – Densely populated Densely populated – Permanent Permanent – Socially heterogeneous, housing non Socially heterogeneous, housing non
agricultural specialists and a literate agricultural specialists and a literate eliteelite
(Louis Wirth, (Louis Wirth,
1938)1938)
The Importance of Density(Manual, p. 94)
How dense is dense?(persons/km2)
Downtown St. John’s 4,000
Chinatown, Toronto9,000
St. Jamestown, Toronto80,000
Mumbai43,000
Definition 2: Functional or Economic
The function of a city is to provide goods and services to its own people and (usually) to a surrounding population (local, regional, national or global) as well
Defining a city
2. Functional or Economic
• Only a small proportion of the population is engaged in primary activities such as fishing, farming or forestry
• Most of the population is engaged in ‘secondary’, ‘tertiary’ or ‘quaternary’ activities• Manufacturing• Trade (wholesale, retail)• Finance• Administration• Education• Religion
Definition 3: Legal or Administrative
A city usually has a legal existence, incorporated as a city or town under some appropriate legislation, and with a defined territory.
St. John’s was incorporated in 1888
St. John’s, 1859
• Prior to that it did not exist legally.
• But it did exist as a large, densely populated, permanent, socially heterogeneous settlement (Definition 1), and it performed urban economic functions (Definition 2) for the country.
St. John’s, 1859
Definition 4: Statistical
Statistical agencies like Statistical agencies like Statistics Statistics CanadaCanada make their own definitions of make their own definitions of cities.cities.
Usually the purpose is to define a Usually the purpose is to define a metropolitan area that approximates the metropolitan area that approximates the area thatarea that functions as a single functions as a single urban settlementurban settlement..
The The Census Metropolitan Area (CMA)Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) isis the most common of these statistical areas. the most common of these statistical areas.
This map shows
the two cities of St.
John’s and Mount
Pearl, and ten of
the towns on the
Avalon Peninsula.
• The goal is to define a metropolitan area that approximates the area that functions as a single urban settlement – in Canada we attempt to delineate the area defined by the daily labourshed.
• The Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) is the most common of these statistical areas.
Diagram of CMA
The Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) according to StatsCan
• The CMA is an area consisting of an urban core plus one or more adjacent municipalities situated around the core. To form a census metropolitan area, the urban core must have a population of at least 100,000. To be included in the CMA, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows.
Census Subdivision-St. John’s CMA Pop. % change
St. John’s 100,646 1.5
Mount Pearl 24,671 -1.2
Conception Bay South 21,966 11.1
Paradise 12,584 31.1
Portugal Cove-St. Philips 6,575 12.1
Torbay 6,281 14.7
Logy Bay-Middle Cove-OuterCove 1,978 5.7
Pouch Cove 1,756 5.2
Flatrock 1,214 6.7
Bay Bulls 1,078 6.3
Witless Bay 1,070 1.3
Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove 915 -3.6
Bauline 379 4.1
Toronto 5,113,149
Montreal 3,635,571
Vancouver 2,116,581
Ottawa-Gatineau 1,130,761
Calgary 1,079,310,
Edmonton 1,034,945
Quebec 715,515
Winnipeg 694,668
Hamilton 692,911
London 457,720
Kitchener 451,235
St. Catharines-Niagara 390,317
Halifax 372,858
CMA Population
2006Rank 1-13
CMA’s 14 to 27
14 Oshawa* 330,594
15 Victoria 330,088
16 Windsor 323,342
17 Saskatoon 233,923
18 Regina 194,971
19 Sherbrooke 181,113
20 St. John’s 181,113 21 Barrie* 177,061
22 Kelowna* 162,276
23 Abbotsford 159,020
24 Greater Sudbury 158,258
25 Kingston 152,358
26 Saguenay 151,643
27 Trois Rivieres 151,529