GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Agricultural Productivity, Mass Production, Division Of Labour
24 Dec 2016
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Lecture 12 the emergence of urban living. Greater and greater proportions of the global population are living in urban areas each year. Are all urban the same: ex. Very congested) vs. usa suburban (looks very different: the structure of urban and rural is helpful but loses its specifity. From the last class we also know that: ~80% of canadians (and about 98% of us) live in cities and/ or suburban areas, we identified the following, characteristics as key for identifying urban/suburban areas. Presence of specific infrastructure ( roads, sewers, transportation routes. What about seemingly arbitary differences: eg. One is town , one is a city, one is a village. Oakville, burlington ( one is atown, one is a city) Markham ( used to be town, now city) richmond hill (town) Some of it is marketing label themselves bigger. Some languages dont even differentiate between town adn cities i. e ville refers to any community or city, its all the same.
