SPATIAL ORGANIZATI
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Valeria C. Ramos 09-10697
Andrés Stohlmann 09-
DEFINITION
SPATIAL ORGANIZATION REFERS TO THE ARRANGEMENT OF PHYSICAL AND HUMAN OBJECTS ON THE EARTH'S SURFACE.
Location, distance, direction, density and arrangement
ANALYSIS
The pattern of daily trips
The average built-up density
Density profile and density gradient FALTA BREVE RESUMEN
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CITY SHAPE
It is not possible to define an optimum city shape because city development objectives change with time.
Cities’ economic efficiency requires, therefore, avoiding any spatial fragmentation of labor markets
THE URBAN PLANNER’S WORK
Urban planners disposes of three tools to influence city shape
Land use regulations
Infrastructures Investment
Taxation
Urban planners should attempt to organize and structure cities spatial organization, for them to be fully functional.
Linkages between spatial structure and city performance in various sectors
Transit use and motorization
Air pollution (due to transport)
Poverty
CHARTS
In less developed countries, there’s a tendency of growth of the cities, that happening because of the centralization and poverty.
Transportation and linkages are important when defining a city spatial organization. These models represent a monocentric city model (with stronger links) and polycentric models (with weaker links, although with more links).
Density profiles are based on density maps, themselves based on census data. Census data provides information about the spatial distribution of people when they are at home. This profiles provide the knowledge of population density in different city’s areas and allows the planner to solve problems according to those profile, problems like transportation (time and efficiency).
GLOBAL TRENDS
Because of the path dependency of the development of urban structure, dominantly monocentric cities tend to become less monocentric. And because income and mobility has been increasing in most large cities of the world, densities in central areas tend to get lower over time. However, it does not mean that every city is now tending toward a low density extremely polycentric model.