A GOG 225 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gentrification
Document Summary
Chinese rural to urban migration- largest annual migration that takes place in china-chinese new year. Relationship between cities and agriculture: cities have not always been positively viewed (they are now) Cities are where activities related to the creation of global linkage take place. Cities are places where frequent face-to-face contact occurs and other cooperative and competitive interactions occur. Even the united nations recognizes the importance of cities both in terms of gathering information about population and for generating idea for better housing. People now view cities as being at the forefront of the environmental(green) movement. (nyc voted the greenest city in us(though density)) The increase of urbanization leads to a lowering of birth rates.
