GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Primate City, Core Countries, Central Place Theory
4 May 2017
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Increase in the concentration of two things: people and economic activities within cities or urban areas. Cities grow because of migration, cities can grow because of natural increase (people are born in cities) The city as we know it is a very recent form of social organization. Cities have been around for about 10,000 years. The worlds rst permanent urban settlements took the form of small villages. Well known historical cities babylon, ur. Most cities were located north of the equator. Between 20 and 40 degrees longitude and latitude. In the tropics, because of the heat it was not possible to have food for a long time. Some civilizations that existed for a long time in the heat, they got close to developing but never developed. Parts of africa that were going to emerge, 1800 ad, same with parts in asia. They came very close but never made it. Argues that cities emerged in one place (mesopotamia)
