PLAN349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Smog, Canadian Identity, Knowledge Economy
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Week2: cities of the us and canada; globalization and its responses. Pop increase in cities such as phoenix. Rustbelt: cities traditionally based on manufacturing sectors, experienced a boom in early. Sunbelt: cities that grew because of new industries such as research and technology. Natural economic cycle of boom and bust. In 2000, 79% of the us pop resides in urban areas. In canada, 65% of the pop lived in metropolitan areas, with half of this pop residing in. By 2030, 85% of the pop in na live in urban areas. Tremendous range of diversity in both pop and physical size. Large cities: miami, atlanta, to, houston, washington, dc, philadelphia. Megalopolitan regions are defined as clustered networks of metropolitan regions that either have populations of more than 10 million or will exceed that number, on current growth projections, by 2010. They drive from at least two or more contiguous metropolitan areas. First megalopolis in the us is the urbanized northeastern seaboard.
