PLG 500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Baby Boomers, Schuylkill River, Typhoid Fever
28 Nov 2017
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Social processes: people living longer, having more kids after high mortality rate of ww2, baby boomers post ww2. Globalization: driving economic growth and regulations. Over last 50 years the world has gone over 50% urban. Africa is expected to increase in population growth while the rest of the world is expected to have a decrease in growth. Population increases from immigration: ex: new york (northern and south eastern european immigration) Inequalities between those who have and those who have not: ex: france monarchy. Creating opportunities for people to move into the urban areas from the rural. Barrier to protect themselves not for city growth and benefit. Buildi(cid:374)gs a(cid:374)d g(cid:396)owth happe(cid:374)i(cid:374)g so (cid:395)ui(cid:272)kly that they (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t keep up with supply: causing severe congestion in areas. Cities as a whole are not great places to live: people worse off in rural areas than in cities.
