GEOG 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Urban Geography, Sub-Saharan Africa, Primate City
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Why places are different, differences between places (special differences) Human geography (urban geography)- how human influence the earth. Agriculture, religions, languages, gender, demographic (population), migration (why moving) Growing gap became smaller ( 5%-> 5% ) 7. 4 billion population today. Population map- country with bigger population have bigger area on the map. Population is increasing at a decreasing rate. Spatial examination of cities and its working. City definition: area contain large population, area with a large population density, area with economic function (how city support itself, area dominate with man made structure, institution, modes of transportation, infrastructure, culture. The world is becoming more urbanized (a growing population living in the urban environment) No clear definition, different country have different definition. Sub-saharan africa is the only region that has not urbanized. What are cities: a select area with a large population. Tokyo - largest metropolitan area: 36 million people (most popular city) Mega city - at least 10 million people (e. g. hongkong)
