GEOG 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Primate City, Walkability, Edward Ullman

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Department
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Urban Systems
Urban nature and concept
Urbanized area
A continuously built-up landscape
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Defined by building and population densities (not political
boundaries)
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May include a central city with town, suburbs, etc.
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1)
Urban
No single definition of what constitutes "urban"
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United states: area > 2,500 people = "urban"
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Statistics Canada: >1,000 and no fewer than 400 persons/km2 =
"urban"
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United nations : settlements >20,000 = "urban"
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Urbanization: the process through which the proportion of the
population living in cities increases
1880: 5% of total global population lived in urban areas
1997: 43% of total global populations lived in areas
2025: projected 61%
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Megacities
Metropolitan area
Large scale functional entity
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May contain several urban areas
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Megacity: metropolitan area with a total population in excess in 10 million
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Top
Megacities by
Population
Rank
City/Metropolitan
Area
Country
Population
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Rank
City/Metropolitan
Area
Country
Population
1.
Tokyo–Yokohama
Japan
37,843,000
2.
Jakarta
Indonesia
30,539,000
3.
Delhi
India
24,998,000
4.
Manila (Metro
Manila)
Philippines
24,123,000
5.
SeoulGyeonggi
Incheon (Sudogwon)
South Korea
23,480,000
6.
Shanghai
China
23,416,000
7.
Karachi
Pakistan
22,123,000
8.
Beijing
China
21,009,000
9.
New York City
United States
of America
20,630,000
10.
Guangzhou–Foshan
(Guangfo)
China
20,597,000
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53.
Toronto
Canada
6,456,000
not a ‘megacity’
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Defined by building and population densities (not political boundaries) May include a central city with town, suburbs, etc. United states: area > 2,500 people = "urban" Statistics canada: >1,000 and no fewer than 400 persons/km2 = Urbanization: the process through which the proportion of the population living in cities increases. 1880: 5% of total global population lived in urban areas. 1997: 43% of total global populations lived in areas. Megacity: metropolitan area with a total population in excess in 10 million. Geographer mark jefferson (1939): a primate city is "at least twice as large as the next largest city and more than twice as significant" A country"s leading city economically, culturally, historically, and politically. Much larger than other cities in wealth, population (at least. Large metropolitan complexes, bounded together at their outer margins (e. g. , agglomerations) The 5 largest urban "conurbations" ranked by populations size (in millions)

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