ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Toilet Seat, Hypercity, Periphery Countries
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Assignment due next week oct 15 - hand in via blackboard, no hardcopy needed. Go out into public space, no use of personally identifiable information (ethical reasons), write about observations, reflections, analysis, relate to the course. Contextual information is helpful - such as time and location (because night and day time is different) Include reference page, included at the end (like an essay) *specifically what these theories have to say about the "urban" and the cities. In 1950 there were 86 cities in the world with a population of over a million; now there are 386. The present urban population in the world is 3 billion, larger than the whole world population in 1960. Thus, there will be megacities with populations in excess of 8 million and hypercities with populations of more than 20 million. By 2025, asia could have 10 or 11 hypercities, including jakarta, dhaka, shanghai and karachi,
