GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Long Nineteenth Century, Futures Exchange, Regional Railways
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To consider the scope of urbanizaion in the nineteenth century world, and some of its driving forces. To examine the expansion of chicago and consider the importance. Before the industrial period, ciies were not oten large. In 1750, only a handful of ciies around the world had a populaion of half a million or more: edo, tokyo, paris, london. Changed the displacement of people, increases in agricultural producivity. Economic centers give rise to experiments in mechanizaion. All crucial for expansion over space, reinforcing the capacity of growing economic centres. 1800: less than 90 urban centers that had 100,000 people. In eu, the urban populaion made up only about 9-10% of the total. 1914: 8 ciies had a populaion over 2 million: new york, chicago, tokyo, berlin, st petersburg, In the briish census of 1801, 850,000 in london. There was an understanding that ciies are growing. The variaions in populaion growth are unstable; some grow quicker, some grow slower.
