Urban Concepts and City Types

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Course Outline

  1. Historical and Formal City Concepts
  2. Administrative Functional and Social Concepts
  3. Geographical City Characteristics
  4. Metropolises and Urban Concentration
  5. Global Cities and Primacy
  6. Megacities and Future Growth

1. Historical and Formal City Concepts

Key Concepts & Definitions

  • Historical city concept : The preindustrial or premodern city that developed in the Middle Ages and was characterized by castles, a city wall, and a dichotomy between city and countryside.
  • Formal city concept : A city through a concentration of houses, a compact settlement body, and its built form, including streets and buildings.

Essential Points

  • Historical city-country boundaries included: a clearly defined wall, a crossroads or market square, quarters segregated by occupational groups, city, jurisdiction, market, minting, and stacking rights

Memory Hook

The historical concept contrasts city and countryside, whereas the formal concept focuses on built form.

2. Administrative Functional and Social Concepts

Key Concepts & Definitions

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1. Regarding the historical city concept, which proposition is correct?

2. Historical city boundaries and institutions included:

3. Regarding the administrative or statistical city concept, which propositions are accurate?

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What does the historical city concept refer to?

The preindustrial or premodern city developed in the Middle Ages.

What characterized the historical city concept?

Castles, a city wall, and a city-countryside dichotomy.

What defined historical city-country boundaries?

A city wall, crossroads or market square, occupational quarters, and special legal rights.

Name one special legal right in historical cities.

City rights.

What does the formal city concept define a city by?

A concentration of houses, a compact settlement body, and built form.

What defines a city in the administrative city concept?

A population threshold defines a city in the administrative city concept.

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