SOC 12050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: List Of Belgrade Neighbourhoods And Suburbs, Urban Ecology, Edge City
19 May 2019
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Urbanization is the concentration of humanity into cities. Earliest settlements were more villages than cities in today"s terms. The emergence of cities led to a specialization and higher living standards. The first western city jericho, which dates back some 10,000 years was home to only around 600 people. Preindustrial european cities date back some 5,000 years to the greeks and. In the middle ages cities began developing: urbanization: the growth of cities. By 1750, a second urban revolution was transforming european cities into an industrial model. The city is one of the most striking features of our modern era and is basic to many of the characteristics of modern society. urban centers, metropolitan cities, megalopolises, and global cities. Sociologists provide a number of models of city growth: the sector model, the multiple nuclei model. Urbanization has proceeded rapidly during the past 180 years, resulting in industrial- the concentric circle model: urbanization: the growth of cities.
