SOSC 1430 Lecture : Urban Development Lecture
13 Oct 2013
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
When peasants become displaced by urbanization, they either have to make the transition to the city, or work as proletariats this lecture: examine life in cities, factors that push people out of rural areas push and pull factors. Urban explosion in the third world, dramatic increase of cities. Un: called this the urban millenium: there are more people in cities than rural areas. Un report: 3. 2 billion live in cities (greater than human population in. From our perspective: most of urban growth has taken place in global south, only 16% lived in cities in 1990, then 40% in 1999. 15 largest cities in world are located in global south = significant changes to urban planning; transit, employment, infrastructure. The poor don"t have the personality to fit in the cities = wrong: video shows how creative they are to produce income informal sector. Cities: relatively large, dense and permanent settlement of socially heterogeneous individuals cities bring people from different backgrounds together.
