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urban land use, CBD, and the suburbs
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internal aspects of the city with a focus on urban functions and the distribution of these functions.
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GGY201 – URBAN STRUCTURE, ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY.LECTURE NOTES: URBAN LAND USE, THE CBD AND SUBURBS (PART 1)
We are now shifting our focus to the internal aspects of the city with a focus on
urban functions and the distribution of these functions.
We can understand urban functions distribution through the concepts of land
value and bid rent.
Land value and bid rent is how market forces drive the cost of land and how the
land is used.
There are different models of urban land-use.
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, We are concerned with;
o Functions: the sort of features present in the city.
o Distribution: where these features are located.
o Intensity: how intensively are these features used.
Urban functions: the modern city is composed of different functions;
o Retail function – exchange of goods and services (e.g., shopping districts
and malls).
o Industrial function – manufacturing of goods (e.g., industrial areas with
factories and warehouses).
o Commercial function – offices and headquarters, business services,
financial services, etc.
o Residential function – residential areas, inner-city vs suburban
o Public space and recreational areas
o Educational function, etc.
Each of these urban functions occupy a specific place in the city and have
different density levels.
Model of land-value;
o Land-use is often determined by land-value.
o Highly valued land will be used differently to cheaper land.
o Land-value also impacts the intensity of land-use.
o One way to define land-value is as bid rent – the amount of money a
particular parcel of land could expect to receive.
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