GGR124H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Primate City, Population Pyramid, Gateway Cities
24 Jan 2017
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More than half of humanity live in urban areas (cities) China has the most dramatic display of urbanization. Problems with rapid urbanization such as experienced in liu gong li (china)- open sewers and inadequate garbage disposal, congested roads, unsafe construction and low-paid and unregulated workshops and factories. Rapid rates of urban growth are a global phenomenon; also overall trend is towards increasing urbanization, some cities experience shrinking cities (decline in population) Challenges of urbanization are shown in manila . Tandard for defining what is (cid:862)ur(cid:271)an(cid:863) likely in(cid:272)ludes populations, landscapes and lifestyles that other standards may not have. A greater share of the worlds population is living in the cities and it is expected to increase. Process of global urbanization is uneven countries around the world are not urbanizing at the same rate (2050 some countries will become more urban much faster vs other countries) Most urban growth will be in the global south less developed regions.
