AP Unit 7 ProjectBrady Buth Hour 4

City Chosen

I chose the city of San Diego, California and it has a population of 1.3 million people.

I took this picture from a catamaran tour.

Information about San Diego

San Diego is located in Southern California only 15 miles from the border of Mexico. It is the second largest city in California (Los Angeles has 3.9 million) and has 70 miles of coastline and several naval bases. Naval Base San Diego is one of the largest naval bases in America. There is also Naval Base Point Loma and Naval Base Coronado. San Diego is also home to the busiest land border crossing. The city is known as "the birthplace of California" since it was the first European landfall and the first European settlement in present-day California. Even though the city of San Diego has 1.3 million people, they don’t have very many large corporations to bring in income to the city so the city relies more on military related industries and tourism along with some international trade. The city of San Diego was established in 1850 and had a population of 650 people. By 1880 the population of the city increased to 2,637 people.

Rank-Size Rule vs. Primate City Law

The city of San Diego follows the primate city rule because the population of the city is 1.3 million people which is the second largest city in California. The largest city in California, Los Angeles, has 3.9 million people. San Diego is a primate city because the population of Los Angeles is more than double the size of the second largest city of San Diego.

Hoyt’s Sector Model

My city exemplifies the Hoyt's Sector model because the zones in my map aren’t in a circle like the Burgess Concentric Zone model or it doesn’t have all the zones like the Harris Ullman Multiple Nuclei Model. It follows the Hoyt’s Sector Model because the CBD is downtown and in the center of downtown and also part of the higher class is located downtown in apartments and another part is just across the bay from downtown. Also, the lower income housing is close to the warehouse district and the central business district. Although, the higher class aren’t in one section of San Diego, they are spread out in sections.

Central Business District of San Diego

This is the central business district of San Diego which is also downtown. There are 7 neighborhoods/districts located within downtown San Diego

1. Columbia 2. Core District (which is the actual

CBD)3. Cortez Hill 4. Marina (contains Seaport Village) 5. Gaslamp Quarter 6. East Village (home to Petco Park) 7. Little Italy

Warehouse District This is the warehouse district of San Diego. It is located just south of downtown and contains a lot of shipyards where all different kinds of Navy ships are being repaired and fixed up.

High Class Housing

These sections are where the higher class live. There are mainly 4 different sections of San Diego where the higher class live and all of them are located near the water. One section is also the expensive apartments downtown. Some of these houses were priced as high as 16 million dollars. They varied from $1 million to about $16 million.

Lower Income housing

This is where the lower income housing is located. You can tell because they have smaller lot sizes and they are closer to their neighbors. The highest these houses were going for was $250,000 which is very low for the real estate of San Diego

San Diego’s 3 Main Economic Activities

San Diego has many economic activities within the city limits. The primary economic activity is defense/military. San Diego is home to the largest naval fleet in the world. It is also host to the only major submarine and shipbuilding yards on the West Coast. Several major national defense contractors were started and are headquartered in San Diego, including General Atomics, Cubic, and NASSCO. The secondary economic activity is tourism. Tourism is a huge part of San Diego because of the climate, beaches and abundance of attractions located within the city. Lastly, the tertiary economic activity is international trade. Since San Diego is located only 15 miles away from the United States/Mexico border they are allowed to trade on the international border which helps the economy tremendously. The city is authorized by the United States government to operate as a Foreign Trade Zone.