01:450:102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Sea Level Rise, Industrial Revolution, Miasma Theory
28 Jan 2020
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The rate of people living in urban vs rural areas. The process by which economic activity and growth becomes concentrated in cities. Urbanization predates capitalism as a set of social relations governing economic activity. However, capitalism drove massive changes in the growth of cities. They remain centers of wealth and power. The rise of the modern city is tied with the spread of capitalism. In 1950, 29% lived in urban areas globally. In 1975, 37% lived in urban areas globally. In 2000, 47% lived in urban areas globally. By 2100, an estimated 8. 5 billion out of 10 billion will live in urban areas (85%) We will have lived through the great urbanization . Population growth rates change as people move to urban areas. This is part of the reason for the demographic transition. Consider when malthus was writing (pre-industrial revolution), and also ehrlich in the. China: as urban population has grown, rural has fell.
