GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Size Function
3 Feb 2014
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Process of urbanization is relatively recent (10% to 50% in the last 200 years) Urbanization is fundamentally connected to economic and social/cultural change (including industrialization) Population size matters but there are seemingly arbitrary differences (markham vs. richmond. Hill: some languages do not differentiate between towns and cities (ville) Urban area is a community that is defined as being urban (city, town, suburb: demographic criteria, economic criteria, canada: population > 1000, density > 499km2, more general term. City is a place of a certain size function and political status. Nucleated settlement is a distinct residential and a non-residential area with cbd (central. Suburb is a specialized and peripheral area of a nucleated settlement: neighbouring urban areas; residential, industrial, commercial specialization. Metropolitan area is an agglomeration (cluster) of discontinuously built-up urban areas acting as an integrated economic unit (gta).
