Urban Geography FRQ - Grade: A+ PDF

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Mr. Fey AP Human Geography March 27 2017 For this part of the FRQ I will be comparing the Latin American Model with Homer Hoyt’s Sector Model. The Latin American City Model was developed by Griffin and Ford, and was a model of the Latin American city showing a blend of traditional elements of culture with the forces of globalization that are reshaping the urban scene. The sector model was A structural model of the American city that suggests that low rent and other types of areas can extend from the CDB to the city's outer edge, created zones that are shaped like a pie piece. To explain one difference between the two models concerning residential and retail areas is that the Latin American Model has a particular sector that is unique to the Latin American Model. This sector is known as the Disamenity sector. In this particular sector, drug lords roam free and it is pretty lawless. Nothing like a Disamenity sector exists in the Sector Model. As our society is heavily regulated by the government. The sector model consists of a CBD, Transportation, Low, Middle, Upper Class Residential. One similarity between the two models was the housing format and layout. The nicer and much more expensive housing would be near the CBD, while the inexpensive and poorly built housing would be located further away from the CBD. The sector model had lower class residential on the outermost edge and the Latin American Model had squatter settlements surround the city. Squatter Settlements are Residential developments characterized by extreme poverty that usually exist on land just outside of cities that is neither owned nor rented by its occupants.

After watching the documentary over the history of Omaha, I believe that the theory developed by James Vance, Urban Realms Theory is most associated with Omaha. The Urban Realms Theory is explained to be and is shown to be a widely dispersed, multicenter metropolis consisting of increasingly independent zones or realms, each focused on its own suburban downtown. The reason why I believe that Urban Realms is related to the city of Omaha is because Omaha has edge cities. An edge city is a term to describe the new urban clusters of economic activity that surround our nineteenth-century downtowns. The Urban Realms Model is the only model that includes edge cities. Some examples of edge cities in Omaha would be like La-Vista, Papillion, etc. Another reason why this model is most applicable to the city of Omaha is because of the simple term known as Annexation. Annexation is a major part of the Urban Realms Model. For example, as the population of Elkhorn grew, Omaha feared they would lose control that region so they decided to Annex Elkhorn. Due to the fact that Annexation was used in Omaha, this leads me to believing that the Urban Realms Model is the model that best represents Omaha....