GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Mass Production, Industrial Revolution
23 Feb 2018
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New forms of social organizations (vs. old nomadic grouping) Critical changes in production and way of living. More proportions of people living in cities. Proportion of population working in agriculture vs. factories. Homogenous vs. heterogenous societies (cities attracted people and migrants from farms and urban areas: build up area of high density of population which its population doesn"t work in agriculture, region surrounding city. Nucleated settlements: a settlement with a distinct center (towns, cities, suburbs, etc. , opposite of rural/dispersed settlements. Metropolitan areas: comprising two or more functionally connected urban areas and the less populated areas between. Urban growth: an increase in the absolute size of an urban area as measured by number of people physically living in it. Urbanization: transformation of society from rural to urban status, measured by increasing proportion of population living in urban areas, c. 1800 (before industrial revolution): approx.
