GEOG 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Central Place Theory, Demographic Transition, Environmental Quality
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Conditions: infrastructure and amenities, social services, environmental quality, equity and social inclusion, income and employment that afford adequate living standards. Buzz of cities: economic development occurs because of clustering of a large number of people in a small area. Not until 1800"s & industrial revolution did urbanization become an important issue. People moved to cities for jobs in manufacturing sector. Urbanization also aided by the demographic transition (model) Chicago & manchester (shock cities) new kind of city: industrial city or a city that existed to assemble raw materials (manufacturing) Transportation networks heavily guided how cities developed: think about how highways really impacted how the usa and the west developed. Colonial cities: those created as commercial or administrative centers by colonial or imperial powers. Central place theory: tries to explain the tendency for central places to be organized in hierarchical systems by analyzing the relative size of towns & cities as a function of consumer behavior.
