What is a hinterland?
A german word that means land behind the city
What is the spacing of cities?
Large cities lie farther apart - smaller settlements are closer to each other
What are the three models that were mainly used for North America?
- Merchantile Model (Vance)
- Development of transport network model (Taffe, Morill, Gould)
What are the 5 major areas of US development?
- Forntier mercantilism (1790-1840)
- Early industrial capitalism (1840-1885)
- National industrial capitalism (1885-1935)
- Mature industrial capitalism (1935-1975)
- Global capitalism (1975-)
What is important about frontier mercantilism?
- Little development in north America
- Scatter ports
- Road, water
When was the first highway built?
1805
What is impoartant about early industrial capitalism?
- Railways
- Steam power
- Urban was 8% in 1885
- Industrial revolution
Once the manufacturing belt was fully developed, why did it prosper?
- It was beneficial for manufacturers to locate close to suppliers
- The region was a large market
What was important about the national capitalism?
- Full scale industrialization
- Gateway cities - Chicago/St. Louis
- Immigration
- Entrepreneural Activity
What was importatn about mature industrial capitalism?
- 1935 50% to 1075 65% lived in cities
- Grow beyond city downtown core
- Industrial capitalism (winners and losers)
What were the forces of local economic development during global capitalism?
- Increasing importance of services
- Decreasing importance of manufacturing
- access to international network
Why was chicago more influenced by transport than any other city?
- Alpha city
- Started with site, took off from situation
- Segregation
- Multicultural city
What was the site points for Chicago?
- Prarie landscape - flat
- High water table
- Lake michigan
- Chicago river less than 2 miles inland
What are the 5 reasons for large scale growth?
- Nodal position on trade routes
- Rich agricultural hinterland
- Expanding market to west
- North supplies of iron ore
- Significant coal deposits
Why was it not abandoned after the great chicago fire?
- Retained nodal advantage
- Industry had not taken root
What did daniel burnham do?
Planned modern day Chicago
What did Fredrick Oldmstead do?
Inner city parks
What did louis Sullivan do?
Form follow function - design around use
What did Frank Lloyd Wright do?
Worked for Sullivan
What did burnham, olmstead, and wellborn root design?
The worlds columbian exposition, first comprehensive planning document in the US
What is the flight to the suburbs (1950)?
- Flooding of the city
- Tract housing developments
- Individual home ideal
- Infrastructure weakened
- Changing technology - truck not rail
