SOCA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 20: Gentrification
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Chapter 20: population and urbanization: slums are home to 20% of those rio de janeiro, cidade de deus, founded 1960s, one of the most dangerous and lawless parts of rio in 1980s, brazil: 41 million people in 1940, 194 million in 2010, more than of the population lives in urban areas, number of humans on earth reached 1 billion in 1804 and 6 billion in 1999, 7 billion in 2011, 1050 people stand where there used to be one, by 2100 it"ll be 1700. Positive checks: war, pestilence, and famine, cause suffering but only forces that can control growth, malthusian trap: refers to a cycle of population growth followed by an outbreak of war, pestilence, or famine that keeps population growth in check, population size might fluctuate but has a natural upper limit that western europe has reached, a critique of malthus, since theory proposed, technological advances have allowed rapid growth in food production.
