GEOG 1280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 58: Urban Geography (Journal)
17 May 2017
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Early settlements 8, 000 years ago in a valley of the tigris and euphrates iraq; other river valleys: nile egypt; huang (yellow) river china; indus pakistan. Mercantile centre: market, exchange of goods and services. Definitions of urban centres vary around the world: Canada: places of 1,000 or more inhabitants has more than 400 people per square km. The boundaries of an urban area are not influenced by municipal or even provincial boundaries. Norway: localities of 200 or more inhabitants and has to be not more than 50 meters between the houses. United states: 10,000 inhabitants that have a population density of at least 1,000 people per square mile. Japan: 30,000 inhabitants with a density requirement of 4,000 inhabitants per square kilometre. A basic consideration in classifying an agglomeration as urban should be by function not by size. Physical movement of people or goods; collection and distribution.
