DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sub-Saharan Africa, Devs, Structural Adjustment
10 Dec 2017
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Rural: defined in 2 ways (population and density population, low population (less then 1,000?, low population density, relative abundance of natural resources, relative spatial isolation, heavy reliance on agriculture and resources for income/employment. Rurality: (what does it mean to live in a rural area: characteristics of what it means socially, politically, economically, etc to live in a rural area. Urban growth: rate at which the population of a city is growing (not the size of the city) Urbanization: proportion of people living in cities in a country (canada: 79/80%) Urbanization in africa: 35% urbanized now, 50% by 2030, 70% of urban residents are slum-dwellers fastest urban growth in the worlds two megacities by 2025. Modernization? (not clear that they will all happen/be there) **is urbanization a good thing (lifet people out of poverty or will it be bad/dystopia: cities are the engine of growth (un believed urbanization is good, very few power cities in africa.
