GEOG 1HB3 Lecture 13: Lecture 13 - October 27, 2017
18 Dec 2017
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Greater proportions of the population are living in urban areas each year. Spatial variations in the level of urbanization. Urbanization is connected to economic and social changes, such as industrialization. Majority of canadians live in cities and/or suburban areas. Urban and rural areas are usually defined in relation to one another. This dichotomy is helpful, but it is also problematic. Urban/urban area: the spatial extent of the build-up area surrounding and including an incorporated municipality, such as a city; typically assessed by its population size and/or population density and/or nature of residents" employment. Nucleated settlements: a settlement focussed around a nucleus (i. e. a town centre, city, etc,); the opposite of dispersed (rural) settlement. City: a specific term used to refer to a particular form of an urban area - a legally incorporated self-governing unit; an inhabited place of greater size, population, or importance than a town or village.
