GGR111H5 Study Guide - Deindustrialization, New Urbanism, Economic Geography

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16 Dec 2013
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Major cities in developing countries attracted the most people with promises of employment and benefits. Four ways cities/urbanism was originated: agricultural surplus and growth, market places established for exchange, new functions for centres, such as military, defence, administration, etc, religious centres. Focuses on marketing, commercial activity and craft industries. Only division was the separation of the elites in the city. Elites found in the central core, the economic, cultural and political focal point. Guild system: land use zoning; clustering of areas based on people sharing jobs/skills, uniformity of practise. Trade system contributed to urban growth after collapse of roman empire. Mercantilism emerged as a dominant belief in governance: the involvement of the state in economic activities for state growth! Capitalism combined with technological advances led to industrial revolution and industrial city. New legal, economic and political institutions. (i. e. security property rights, social mobility) Large-scale use of energy resources and factory production.