GEO 106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Industrial Revolution
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Urban growth: occurs when rates of growth between urban and rural populations are about the same over the long term and over wide areas. Also occurred at very high rates in developing countries. Urbanization curve has three stages : initial stage, growth stage and terminal stage. The stages can be described by: rates of growth: how fast a population is becoming urban, levels of growth: what share of a population is urban. Distinct difference between curves for developing and developed nations: developing: terminal stage was attained after just two or three decades of growth, developed: attained after a century or more of growth. The speed at which developing nations urban areas have grown has resulted in tremendous social and economic pathologies. Alters the spatial structure of a nation, both in terms of its city structure and its rural structure. Urbanization is a complex interactive process in which three related phenomena occur. These are economic transformation, demographic transformation and social transformation.