The North Kansas City Urban District

Abstract

T GHE North Kansas City Industrial District is a distinct physical, industrial, and political unit occupying a small bottom in a meander of the Missouri River immediately north of and adjacent to Kansas City, Missouri. Physically this area is separated from Greater Kansas City by the Missouri River; politically it is independent; industrially it has a distinctive development. The interrelations of its physical, political, and industrial conditions have unified the district. Thus unified, it offers an opportunity for interpreting (1) the morphology of the landscape, and (2) the localization of the identifying forms, in a unique industrial area. The purposes of this study are (1) to identify and classify the various physical and cultural landscape forms which are found within the district and to show their interrelationships, (2) to interpret the structure of the cultural landscape by an analysis of the grouping and distribution of these forms, (3) to account for the localization of the various forms and structural features, and (4) to predict, on the basis of these data, the probable future changes in the landscape.