GGR124H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Global City, High Tech
13 Apr 2016
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Picture shows development population +infrastructure (many well populated areas not as lit up) shows inadequate infrastructure. Time-space compression compression of geographic space by faster means of transport and communication presents space as an relational concept instead of absolute. Some places are practically closer together, some are farther away. Ex: (skype someone in a different country, sending money from one country to another) Society has become completely urbanized - lefebvre,1970. Can be referring to expansion of global urban population. Can mean that even if you are not living in a city you are still affected by urbanization. Transformation of social, cultural, and economic life because of urbanization. Global population living in cities increased greatly from 1950 to 2014. Urban populations growing at twice the rate of global population (more people living in cities overall) 54% of world population lives in urban areas as of 2014. But, much of urban growth not in rich developed cities .
