CITB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Industrial Revolution, Kingsley Davis
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A city is a form of a human settlement. Human settlement a village or city: pop. Density and size: geographic space they are in. Govt define what a city is: to measure demographic trends, urban vs. rural, population censors, the scale point with 100 thousand people, metropolitican areas. 2: cities are characterised by a high level of specialization a. In villages the employment is highly in agriculture: our social structure reach a high level of complexity compared to rural areas, city life is modern life vs. tradition life for rural. The urban revolution published in town planning review (1950) Stages of human development marked by three revolutions. Paleolithic period neolithic period urban period industrial period. 10 criteria of the urban revolution : carry capacity was very low, small tribe collected w. e was needed for survival. Neolithic settlements were classified of cities: but he stated that it was notifying the criteria of cities for it to be considered as cities.
