ECON 1B03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Subsistence Agriculture, Social Stratification

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Economics
• Course: ECON 1B03
• Professor: Hannah Holmes

Document Summary

Why do cities exist: cultural artefact/cultural creation, place of commerce/xchange, a place to be experience, microcosm of society (ex social economical classes) Why do cities look the way they do? (why do poor ppl tend to live near the city centre) Why has the 21st century been termed the urban century?". Urbanism: the way of life, attitudes, values & patterns of behaviour fostered by cities. Urban form: morphology or physical structure of the city (layout, arragnement of land. Urbanization: the process whereby a society is transformed from rural to urban in character. Ubran growth: process whereby cities/towns become more densely populated and/or spatially expansive (increase in density or in area) By 2030, 60% of world"s pop will be living in cities. 2002 largest cities: tokyo, mexico city, new york, sao paulo, mumbai. Valley of tigris & euphrates cities are very recent phenomena in the course of human history. A supply of food above and beyond subsistence level.