GEOG 3650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Smiths Falls, Urban Planning, Technological Determinism
3 Aug 2017
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Introduction to the study of cities: urban places are dynamic and ever changing and they also can take many different forms from: relatively small urban places (e. g. , smiths falls); to more medium sized cities (e. g. , Toronto); to very large urban places (e. g. , new york: an urban area was defined as having a population of at least 1,000 and a density of 400 or more people per square kilometre. All territory outside an urban area was defined as rural area. Together, urban and rural areas covered the entire nation. source: statistics. Canada (http://www. statcan. gc. ca: so, to be classified as urban in canada, a place must have a certain threshold population size and density, urban residents do not depend on the land directly to sustain themselves. They rely on rural dwellers to supply food and other natural resources that are essential to the urban way of life. We expect to see the first adoption to innovations in urban areas.
