GEO 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Ernest Burgess, Deindustrialization, Chauncy Harris
17 Apr 2018
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Geo106 week 9: urbanization and form and structure in the city. Size and composition: processes that influence composition. Links between populations and the larger human environments of which they are a part. Originally used by empires to count persons and property for taxation (3500bc) Modern census counts to find out: who lives where, what their characteristics are, how they relate to other people in society. Data from the censuses let us explore populations over time in detail. Population pyramids are the simplest way to describe a population: age and sex by number or percent. Fertility and mortality vary with age: growth of a population is affected by age composition of population, youth (<15), middle (15-64), old-age cohorts (>65) Describes changing levels of fertility and mortality (hence natural increase) over time in more developed world. As countries get richer, fertility and mortality decline. The replacement of high birth and death rates by low birth and death rates.
