SOCIOL 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Counterurbanization, Visible Minority, Joel Garreau
28 Mar 2017
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Perspectives on population and urbanization: environmental-opportunity theory, demography, economic lens. Environmental-opportunity theory: this perspective speaks to the issue of decision-making about where we live, and the fact that most people on the planet have no say in where they live. Demography: population size - whether populations are growing or stagnant, distribution - is it highly centralized/more dispersed, composition - the age make-up of population, racial/ethnic make-up of population. Economic lens: local to global economic forces, private communities and the fortress city are conceptually similar and are expressions of the income inequalities we see in contemporary society. The city: cities: large and dense population networks, emerged with food surpluses. Black plague: took 30-60% of european population, surfaced in 1300s and continuously came up, population of cities stayed small, compared to contemporary cities. Stage 1 (early society): high death rates, high birth rates. Stage 2: death rate declined (people living longer), birth rates high.
