GEOG101 Lecture 15: Urban Geography
10 Mar 2017
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Studying urbanization: development of cities, attributes of cities, patterns and regularities, economic, social, cultural, political life, urban systems, urban form, urban ecology, urbanism. Globally: the vast majority of the developing world lives in the urban world, urban growth is the rate at which cities urbanize (highest in africa) Functions of urban areas: mobilization (labour, capital, raw materials, products, decision-making (political and economic power, generation (innovation, knowledge, and information, transformation (liberation, lifestyle) Urban origins: cities: relatively new in human history. Sedentary agriculture - permanent settlements - cities: consistent food - higher production densities, food surpluses - store, tax, distribute, and trade food. Food surpluses: labour specialization, different social hierarchy"s - leads to greater urbanization, complex society, social hierarchy. Innovation, innovation and more innovation: urban population densities. Urban origins: emerged from cultural hearths, common location factors, water (and other key resources) situation: where a city is located in relation to other important locations.
