HIS299Y5 Final: GGR 207 EXAM REVIEW.docx
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Definitions of urban", the urban process, urban growth, urbanization, Urban: implies dense spatial concentration (agglomeration) of people and activities not usually considered agricultural. The urban process: includes relationships that occur in the macro scale ( globalization, urbanization), mesoscale (city of toronto, region of peel), and in the micro scale (neighbourhood, street) Urbanization: refers to the shifting population balance from urban and rural areas. Urban growth: refers to the growth (population area, land use, economic base), or decline of individual areas or the growth and decline of set (collection) or urban areas. Suburbanization: shifting population balance between surubran portions of metropolitan areas and the rest of the country. More people lve in suburbs as opposed to urban. It is when the balance between the urban and rural population is actually shifting towards rural areas. Metropolitan: when metropolitan areas (largest urban areas) are growing aster than smaller urban areas (pop.
