GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Chauncy Harris, Megacity, Ernest Burgess
11 Apr 2018
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Urban area: the spatial extent of the built-up area surrounding and including an incorporated municipality, such as a city. Exceeding some threshold of population and/or density: economic. The existence/absence of economic activities (i. e. mining, agriculture or finance and manufacturing) Urbanism: the urban way of life; associated with a declining sense of community and increasingly complex social and economic organization as a result of increasing population size, density, and heterogeneity. A social/cultural way of thinking about the city. Recall: the urban way of life (vs. rural life) Urbanism is an outcome of the process of urbanization. Urban change: understood with respect to two dimensions of growth: relative and absolute growth. Urban growth: an increase in the absolute size of an urban area/city. Key measure: an increase in the number of people. Alternate measure: an increase in the total area of land. Urbanization: an increase in the proportion of the population living in urban areas.
