GEOG 1HB3 Study Guide - Nucleated Village, Megacity, Some Cities
25 Apr 2013
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Roughly over 50% of the global community lives in urban cities, 200 years ago it was less than 10%. Here are spatial variations in canada well over 80% live in cities. Until recently china was under 30% and now they are the most rapidly urbanizing. Over time the population has changed as well. Change over space: spatial variation: urban places can be thought of as; Centres of large and densely concentrated populations- not dispersed like in the country. Centres of technological change and innovation-advances in communication tech, industrial production, information tech. Centres of concentrations of power and economic activity-political power and political capitals are always cities where it s concentrated. Economic power is in city such as financial trade organization, headquarters, stock market. Places which reflect social, economic & political diversity- cities weren t always diverse but now there is cultural diversity, there is economic activity such as retail, industrial, rich and poor: concentration of power.
