ENVS 2200 Chapter 11: ENVS 2200 Reading Analysis # 2.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 2200
• Professor: Roger Keil

Document Summary

This summary and analysis is on chapter 11 of implosions/explosions. This reading discusses urbanization as a model and traces back its roots to when civilization first started to theorize urbanism and the idea of being connected through population density and interaction. The author describes urbanization as a process in ongoing global transformations . This writing also takes into the account the transition from the beginning of the industrial world and where we are today. We look at how urbanization has changed with industrial factors, such as factories, production, location. Typically we have very densely populated areas like downtown toronto, and our factories and means of production are located on the outskirts of the city zone, typically in other cities such as mississauga, brampton, Scarborough, which are less congested and less populated, which make them ideal places to build factories. However, this does create traffic (people travelling in and out of.