Geography 2060A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Primate City, Spice Trade, Borobudur
23 Apr 2016
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Cities: manila, bangkok, jakarta, hanoi, kuala lumpur, yangon. High levels of urban primacy: bangkok, jakarta, manila. Now, densely populated and sprawling: manila, bangkok, jakarta, planned & unplanned, land speculation/landlessness. Natural crossroad: trade (spice, migration, cultural exchange. Hub of trade networks from east asia to africa. Sacred cities: religious functions, inland, not diverse, administrative center, larger population, planned to mirror religious links, brick temple. Borobudur and angkor: declined in the 16th century. Pearls, silk, tin, spices: ethnically more diverse, coastal locations, compact in layout, limited hinterlands, examples: Oc eo (first city in se asia) Early city planning: harbour and coastal trade route access, defensibility, resources, malacca (portuguese), manila (spain), jakarta (dutch). Too much focus on these cities, led a decline of inland cities. Rapid urbanization, especially in capitals (bangkok, manila, jakarta) Demographic processes: high birth rate, rural urban migrations, immigration. Reclassification threshold to be considered urban is changing.
