GEOG 1HB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Urban Area, Megacity, Wendell Cox
18 Apr 2016
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Key concepts that will aid in our understadning of urban issues. Percent of the population living in urban areas: ~14% (world) vs. ~50% in much of the mdw. In terms of the rate of urban growth. C) i. e. urbanized countries have slow population growth (or decline) => urban growth can only result from further urbanization, but they ate already highly. C) i. e. urbanized countries have slow population growth (or decline) => urban growth can only result from further urbanization, but they ate already highly urbanized. Levels of urbanization are higher in the more developed world (mdw) But the majority of very large cities are in the ldw. Number of large cities (by population size), according to demographia: Some others listed: new york, seoul, chongqing, shanghai, delhi, mexico. These definitions can be based on a city"s: Mumbai, delhi, calcutta (india), dhaka (bangladesh), karachi (pakistan), jakarta (indonesia), lagos (nigeria), cairo (egypt), sao paulo (brazil), mexico city, etc.
