POL346Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Golden Horseshoe, Census Geographic Units Of Canada, Urban Sprawl
11 Dec 2017
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Pol346 s1 l4 urban growth and the metropolitan question. Demographic approach: you can define urban according to size, density, or economic heterogeneity. Socio-cultural approach: you can define urban as a state of mind; for example, you can own a farm and live in a village but qualify yourself as an urban because of your technological accesses. Before 2011: stats can defined urban settlements with a population of 1,000 or above. Since 2011: stats can uses the term population centre instead of urban. They no longer use the word urban but population centre to quantify urban settlements. No fewer than 400 persons per square kilometre and a population of at least 1,000 people. There are small, medium, and large population centres. You can be a municipality and not be a population centre and some municipalities can have more than one pop. centre; it has nothing to do with municipal boundaries.
