CO SCI 136 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Edge City, Geomatics, Distance Decay
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Thinking about the urban in human geography: chicago school (sociology) Suburban growth in africa: % of people living in urban areas, absolute number of people living in urban areas. What is urban geography: the urban as physical entity (pacione, 2009) rural urban continum. Population size: sweden, places > 200 inhabitants = urban, usa = places > 2500 inhabitants = urban, what it means to be considered urban = contextual. India if 75% of males work out side agriculture = urban. Meaning of urban places and the effect of urban places on people"s lifestyles. Urban places have long been understood as distinctive: e. g. during industrial revolution in europe: period of rapid urbanization and the of modernity. Connection between urbanization and modernity: break with pre-modern past e. g. set of economic/social attitudes or shift towards rational/scientific mind-set. Sense of dystopia with the urban: city brought together ideas about urbanization, industrialization and modernization (shift towards progress)
