GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Megacity, Industrial Revolution, Toronto City
24 Dec 2016
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Lecture 14- global variations of urbanization and growth: urban & rural areas, city, suburb, metropolitan area, urbanization, urban growth. Variations: levels of urbanization & urban growth: current rates & trends. Pervasive urban issues: city size and megacities. Last class, we defined some key concepts that will aid in our understanding of urban issues: urban area: a densely populated community, where most inhabitants have non- agricultural jobs ( i. e a city, a town a suburb. Proportion of the population living in urban areas: c. 1800 or prior to industrial revolution: ~3%(world)vs. ~10%in the mdw (more developed world, they were more urbanized: 1900: ~14% (world) vs ~50% in much of the mdw ( australia, japan, newzeland, ~54% (world: ~80% in the mdw, ~48% in the ldw. Urbanization mirrors industrialization and economic development(not clear which causes which. You can do this at a global scale. (worlds population lives in urban areas) regional , national.
