GGRA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Urban Sprawl, Megacity, Quality Of Life
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Ggra03: lecture 5 - cities in a world system. Megacities: are city regions with a population over 10 million. The number of megacities are growing rapidly. Most megacities are in the global south. There is no reason to think that there is a qualitative difference between cities of 8 and. Yet there is a clear difference between cities of 1 million and 8-10 million. 22 of these new megacities are projected to be in developing countries. 9% of the world"s urban population, yet responsible for 15% of global gdp. Increases in speed has major consequences on resource and infrastructure availability. Political processes and governance institutions take time to evolve and generate effective frameworks to manage the complex systems that make large cities more livable. Anti-urbanism: is a discourse of fear of the city, often produced and reproduced through a variety of negative literary, artistic, media, cinematic, and photographic representation of urban places.
