CITB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Urban Area, Social Relation, Stone Age
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Lecture #2: the oigins and evolution of cities. Disciplinary vs. interdisciplinary research: the blind men concept. What are we looking for when we think of cities. Canada is mostly urbanized, the percentage of people living in urban cities is more than rural areas. The u. s , argentina are high in urbanization. 1 in 3 canadians live in these largest cmas. What is a city: the dif. b/w village and city, size and density, size population and spatial or geographic, physical structures, development, we don"t produce our food. Since 1971 statistics canada has defined places as urban if they have more than 1000 inhabitants and a population density of at least 400 people / square km. This approach ignores differences among places classified as urban. Recently statistics canada replaced the term urban area with population centre . Introduced a distinction b/w small, medium and large population centres to better reflect an rural- urban.
