IDSB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Millennium Development Goals, Modernization Theory, United Nations Development Programme
22 Apr 2016
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Changing patterns: one of the key spatial changes in human population patterns, is the increase in those living in urban areas, the process of urbanization. Urbanization: because this process refers to the demographics between rural and urban centers, urbanization happens on regional, country-level, continental, and/ or global scales. From a demographic perspective, does not happen to an individual city. Urbanization demographics: rather, urbanization results from any of the following: i. ii. iii. Natural increases in populations in urban areas (i. e. births minus deaths), but not in rural areas. Reclassification of rural settlements to urban areas, such as when urban areas capture rural areas/ populations. Proportion of global pop. living in cities increasing: net urbanization worldwide, on average proportion of world"s population in urban areas has gone from: In absolute population numbers, these changes are enormous: globally, urbanization has gone from: Urbanization process: globally, urban populations are now larger than rural populations (first time in history).
