GGR208H5 Lecture 11: GGR208 LECTURE 11
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500 words: write topic-wise not author-wise, expected refer to slides and previous notes. Idea of urban reclassification: champion article polycentric urban regime. Image: 1950s when the subway was being built, development of the subway system was one of the reasons why there were so many people moving to urban spaces. Urbanization in canada: 2014 un report canada ranks 40th in the world in terms of urbanization, more than us and germany but less than japan. 500,000 but other cities, such as athens were smaller. In both cases, the majority of the people lived as subsistence farmers in the countryside: three broad explanations for the emergence of the early urban areas, first, the surplus theory argues that cities arose after agricultural surpluses. Locations that allowed agricultural production and irrigation such as the indus. Importance of religion becomes more prominent in europe: state is the only body that has the power to use force (police, army)
