IDSB02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Modernization Theory, Water Balance, Sewage Treatment
6 Feb 2018
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One of the key spatial changes in human population patterns, is the increase in those living in urban areas. Based on demographics: increasing share/ proportion/ percentage of population living in urban areas. Necessitates a declining share living in rural areas. Different from urban population growth within a given city, or the physical expansion of urban areas (ex. 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. Proportion of global population living in cities increasing. On average proportions of worlds population in urban areas has gone from: 13% in 1900, to 30% in 1950, to 49% in 2005, to projected 60% by 2030. By 2030, 60% of global population will live in cities. 80% of those city dwellers in developing countries. Major implications for cities, and more generally, development policy and practice.
