Geography 2060A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Megacity, Fashion Capital, Language Barrier
23 Apr 2016
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Cities to know london, paris, madrid, helsinki, copenhagen, amsterdam, brussels, vienna, Least urbanized: bosnia-herzegovina (population dropped from 1991-2013, emigrated due to war), slovenia, albania. Classical period (800 bc 450 ad: site- coastline, hillside (defensible, greek towns (temples, market, grid patterns, walls) Medieval period (450-1300: churches, houses, taverns, market square, city walls. Renaissance/baroque period (1300-1760: wealth replanning of cities, more attention to planning, ornate architecture, wall obsolete. Industrial period (1760-1945: cities reshaped, large scale rural migration, factories. Central place theory: major cities in the centre, surrounded by outlying cities, evenly spaced. Not seen in other continents: capital city is less important, deviations greece, ireland, hungary, bulgaria, austria (large capital primate cities) Core-periphery model: dominance of core based on location/infrastructure advantage. High tech industry, advanced transportation: advantages of being in the core: More infrastructure: disadvantages of being periphery. Forced to travel to the core to find better services (healthcare, education)
