UXB133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Hong Kong, Underemployment, Soil Contamination
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Urbanisation: studying urbanisation involves looking at, history and culture, sociology - family structures, population composition, migration factors, demography, environment, economic functions - understanding economic changes in cities, systems of industry, transportation, city planning and design. Established by in-migrant colonial forces or grafted onto existing urban places. Causes of rapid urbanisation in developed countries e. g. Europe / north america: europe and north america in the 19th century and early 20th century, industrialisation (pull factors, higher wages in factories, expectations of more opportunities in cities, perception of good (modern) life, rural stagnation (push factors) Colonial cities: colonial era zenith in 19th and 20th centuries, cities blend of western and indigenous culture, european colonial city, created from scratch e. g. Hong kong, nairobi: grafted colonial city, european centres added in indigenous urban centres e. g. Largest city in an urban system, a sign of unbalance in this system, it is a driver of growth. National economic policies and investment in infrastructure and trade.
