GEOG 217 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Subsistence Agriculture, Industrial Revolution, Louis Wirth
27 Apr 2016
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Lecture 2 what is a modern city? revised syllabus on mycourses. What do we mean by modern and what do we mean by city ? distinguishing between pre-modern and modern. Most people not doing agriculture engaged in small scale craft production: some trade but very limited, city dwellers cannot grow their own food to have a city, you need agricultural surplus, cities were religious centres. Administrative centres centres of trade/ market centres trading agricultural surplus or crafts: people in cities were doing things that enabled them to get food without growing it themselves. 25 largest cities in the world 2010: largest city in the world is tokyo 27 million people increase in 13400% compared to 430 bc, 25th largest city 9. 5 million, cities much more geographically dispersed. Possible to travel rather quickly: economy relatively few people involved in agriculture in contrast to 430 bc. Highly integrated global economy era of gloablization.
