GEOG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Primate City, Demographic Transition, Cultural Globalization
27 Oct 2017
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Industrial capitalism and urbanization: england: 50% urban by mid 1800s, rural-urban migration: push and pull factors, push: rural enclosure, push: decline of rural industries, pull: new jobs and life opportunities, demographic transition: growth in population. Industrial cities: manchester, england, 1750: 15,000, 1801: 70,000, 1911: 2. 3 million. Urban systems: (cid:862)an interdependent set of urban settlements within a region/national system(cid:863) Zipf"s rank size rule: pr = pi / r, where, pr = population of the rank size. Pi = population of the largest city r = rank of the city: the second ranking city of a country has one half of the population of the largest city. The third largest city is one third of the largest. Urban systems: primacy: population of the largest city is disproportionately large in relation to the second and third largest cities in the system, a primate city: e. g. paris france, kinshasa dr congo.
