GEOG 020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Urban Sprawl, Primate City, Rundling
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Settlement - permanent collection of buildings, where people live and work, and obtain services (medical, educational, restaurants, pharmacies) City - a conglomeration of people and buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics. People established the first cities about 8000 years ago some cities grew out of agricultural villages - rural settlements that are small in size and population, and others grew in places previously unoccupied by sedentary people. Political/military - leader"s house, walls; example of military: constantinople (istanbul) Urban settlements - principal industries are secondary and tertiary rural settlements. Nucleated/clustered houses are grouped together in tiny clusters or hamlets, or in slightly larger clusters - villages, to minimize travel a result of mass immigration (the pilgrims to plymouth) Northeast america urban areas - have a center area of development called the core area. North america (canada and the one another with enclosed.
