CITB02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter week2: Kingsley Davis
KINGSLEY DAVIS (19-30)
- Urbanized societies are example of evolution of people settlements most settlements
before were small w/ lots of rural people (pg 21)
Now: 53% of US pop lives in 213 agglomerations that only make up 0.7% of the
nation’s land
Urban pop is 70% (pg 22)
- 1850 = almost no place could be called urbanized now all industrial nations are highly
urbanized
rate of change from 1950-1960 was 2x that of the period preceding 1950
-urbanization: proportion of the total population concentrated in urban settlements, or
else to a rise in this proportion
is not simply the growth of cities cities can grow w/o urbanization as well
- process of urbanization is a change w/ a limit, but growth of cities does not have one
- Hardest part of determining the “floor” of the urban category is by looking at the
boundaries of places that are urban by definition eg. NJ/NY area as delineated by the
Bureau of the Census had more than 14m people showed it to be 2x the size of the
NYC proper (pg 23)
- b/c outward spread of urbanites, counts based on political boundaries underestimate
city populations this change in raised proportion of the cities that are >100k in size,
raised prop. From 15.1% to 16.7%
- 2 conditions presaged this age of urbanization
1. Low productivity of medieval agriculture in both per/acre and per/man terms
otowns could not prosper on the basis of local agriculture alone, so had to
trade and manufacture
2. Feudal social system
otowns could not gain political dominance over their hinterlands, and thus
became warring city-states thus: specialized in commerce and
manufacturing
ocomp. stimulated innovations and specialization
- close connection created between industry and commerce set stage for urbanization
breakthrough came w/ increase in productivity through machinery
was very hard in 1600s, 1700s, 1800s, proportion of settlements > 100k were
1.6/1.9/2.2 In Europe
- by 1801 however, 1/10th of people in England were living in 100k people cities larger
industrialization = faster urbanization
- modern urbanization is best understood now in terms of its connection w/ economic
growth and its implications are best perceived in its latest manifestations in advanced
countries
-urbanization is a finite process nations go from agararian to industrial societies (pg
24)
oadvanced countries are in the end of urbanization
- Cycle of urbanization be represented by an attenutated S-surve
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Urbanized societies are example of evolution of people settlements most settlements before were small w/ lots of rural people (pg 21) Now: 53% of us pop lives in 213 agglomerations that only make up 0. 7% of the nation"s land. 1850 = almost no place could be called urbanized now all industrial nations are highly urbanized. Rate of change from 1950-1960 was 2x that of the period preceding 1950 urbanization: proportion of the total population concentrated in urban settlements, or else to a rise in this proportion. Is not simply the growth of cities cities can grow w/o urbanization as well process of urbanization is a change w/ a limit, but growth of cities does not have one. Hardest part of determining the floor of the urban category is by looking at the boundaries of places that are urban by definition eg. nj/ny area as delineated by the.
