GEOG 1HA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Gemeinschaft And Gesellschaft, Louis Wirth, Urban Sprawl
14 Mar 2017
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Forms of rural settlement: dispersed, clustered/nucleated. Culture: the (cid:858)way of life(cid:859) of a group of people. Each cultural group adapts (cf. cultural adaptation) to their local environment in different ways e. g. new languages (or dialects or accents), new religions, new ways of dress, new foods, new traditions, new recreational activities, etc. Among these adaptations is how people live: where and how they live their lives. Many forms of settlement, e. g. rural and urban: many varieties of both of these, e. g. rural hamlets, towns, cities, megacities, etc. Urban and rural settlements are usually defined in relation to one another; whatever is not urban, is rural (and vice versa: ur(cid:271)a(cid:374) = (cid:858)(cid:271)uilt up(cid:859), large populatio(cid:374), de(cid:374)sely settled, next class: precise definition of urban. Three (cid:894)3(cid:895) reaso(cid:374)s : global population, what proportion of the world lives in rural locations, world: ~50% rural, though, significant spatial variation, africa & asia: ~60% vs, oceania, europe, north & south america: ~25%
