World Cities Chpt 1

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World Urban Development

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- Between 1900 - 2000 two things changed:
1. proliferation of independent nations
2. mushrooming number and sizes of cities

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Industrialization/Economic growth led to...

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growth and urbanization of less developed countries

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Urban nations tend to be more..

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Economically developed and politically powerful

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The World Urban System

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- World Pop 6.64 billion
- By 2030 60% of pop will live in urban cities
- Africa and Asia will go from least urbanized to most urbanized by 2030

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The World Urban System Cont.

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- The majority of urban dwellers live in small urban settlements
- By 2030 three of five people will live in an urban setting
- More urban cities now exist in less developed countries (LDC) than more developed countries (MDC)

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Urbanism

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is a broad concept that refers to all aspects - political, economic, social - of the urban way of life

- this is the end result of urbanization
- suggests urban life is way different than rural life

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Urbanization

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- Process involving two phases
1. movement of people from rural to urban places, engage in primarily nonrural occupations
2. change in lifestyle that results from leaving countryside

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Urbanization Cont.

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with regards to the movement the place doesn't become urban until its workforce is divorced from soil, trade, manufacturing and service provision dominate economies, (pop. density and economic function effects)

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Urbanization Cont. II

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with regard to the change in lifestyle, when the population grows there are smaller family sizes because the value of children change (social, psychological and behavior effects)

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Urban place

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when population goes up the place gets bigger (to show they aren't dependent on agriculture)

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City

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is a political designation referring to a large, density populated place that is legally incorporated as a municipality

1. Megacity - 10 million +
2. Any settlement may call itself a city (big or small)

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Urbanized area

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is a built up area where buildings, roads, and essentially urban land sues predominate, even beyond the political boundaries of cities and towns

1. areas of urban/rural boundaries are blurred

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Conurbation

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is when urbanized areas merge (ex. Dallas-Fort Worth)

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World Cities

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function as command/control centers of the world economy (ex. NY, Tokyo, London)

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Metropolis & Metropolitan Area

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is a " mother city " in old terms, today any city can be a metropolis, Metropolitan area is anchored by a large city (in the U.S. 50,000+ pop., urban and rural areas must be integrated and its built from county units)

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Megalopolis

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is an urban combination of metropolitan areas at regional scale, together because of transportation

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Site & Situation

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Site is the physical characteristics of a place where the city originated/evolved (ex. NY Harbor)

Situation is the relative location of the city (how it connects with other places)

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Urban Landscapes

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are manifestations of thoughts, deeds & actions of humans

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Capital City

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are the headquarters of government function ("Head cities"

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Preindustrial City/(Traditional City)

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were founded/grew before industrialization in the 19th/20th centuries

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Industrial City

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has an economy based on the production of manufactured goods

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Post Industrial City

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has an economy based on the service industry (today's world)

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Primate City

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is a city that is large, economically dominant and culturally expressive of a national identity, ( it is at least twice the size of the 2nd largest city, ex. Paris)

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Rank-size Rule

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states that the population of a city within a country should equal the population of the largest city divided by its rank (5th largest city should be 1/5 population of largest city)

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Colonial City

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Two types of colonial cities:
1. European city created where no urban life was before
2. European city grafted on existing indigenous urban place

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Socialist City

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Cities that were created and are run like they are under the rules of the Communist party

They have massive government involvement in their economies, no private landownership and no free market

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New Town

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is a planned urban community built from society with the intent of becoming as self-contained as possible