CONCEPT
Patrick Geddes explained an organisms relationship to
its environment as follows:
The environment acts, through function, upon the organism and
conversely the organism acts, through function, upon the
environment.(Cities in Evolution, 1915)
In human terms this can be understood as a place
acting through climatic and geographic processes upon
people and thus shaping them. At the same time
people act, through economic processes such as
farming and construction, on a place and thus shape it.
Thus both place and folk are linked and through work
are in constant transition.
CONURBATION
CONURBATIONS THEORY
The term "conurbation" was coined in 1915
byPatrick Geddesin his bookCities In Evolution.
Internationally, the term "urban agglomeration" is
often used to convey a similar meaning to
"conurbation".
He drew attention to the ability of the (then) new
technology of electric power and motorised
transport to allow cities to spread and agglomerate
together, and gave as examples "Midland ton" in
England, theRuhrin Germany,Ramstadin
theNetherlands,New York-Bostonin theUnited
States,theGreater Tokyo Areaand Taiheiy Beltin
Japan andNCR of Delhi in India.
CONURBATION THEORY
CONURBATION
waves of population
inflow to large cities,
followed by
overcrowding and
slum formation, and
then the wave
backflow the whole
process resulting in
amorphous sprawl,
waste and
unnecessary
obsolescence.
EXAMPLES OF CONURBATION
NEW YORK
The expansive concept of theNew York metropolitan
area(theTri-State Region) centred on New York City,
including 30 counties spread betweenNew York
State,New Jersey,Connecticut, andPennsylvania,
with an estimated population of 21,961,994 in 2007.
Approximately one-fifteenth of all U.S. residents live
in the Greater New York City area.
This conurbation is the result of several central
cities whose urban areas have merged.
UNITED KINGDOM
Industrial and housing growth in theUnited
Kingdomduring the 19th and early 20th centuries
produced many conurbations.
Greater Londonis by far the largest urban area and is
usually counted as a conurbation in statistical terms,
but differs from the others in the degree to which it is
focused on a single central area.
In the mid-1950s
theGreen Beltwas
introduced to stem the
further urbanisation of
the countryside in UK.
The term "conurbation" is
closer to the meaning
ofurban agglomeration.
INDIA
Mumbai Metropolitan
Region(MMR) is a metropolitan area consisting of
the metropolis of Mumbai and its satellite towns.
Developing over a period of about 20 years, it
consists of seven municipal corporations and
fifteen smaller municipal councils.
CONSTELLATION THEORY