GEOG101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Counterurbanization, Gateway Cities, Affordable Housing
15 Mar 2018
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Motivations: pull factors, affordable housing (self) employment opportunities. Less tied to the office: perceived rural amenities & desirable landscapes, push factors, u(cid:396)(cid:271)a(cid:374) (cid:862)ills(cid:863, crime, congestion, pollution, stress, high cost of living, decreasing housing affordability. World urbanization today: agglomeration index: 1km2, population density 150, 60 min by road to city of 50 000, commuters, world urbanization: 2010 51, urbanization correlates to economic development, more people live in cities than not. Urbanization trends: rapidly increasing numbers of large cities, 1900: 12 cities >1 million population, 2000: 411 cities >1 million population, 2015: 564 cities >1 million population. Increasing population of cities: 2010: 40 megacities (>10 million, >10 supercities (>20 million) Increasing size of cities, e. g. mexico city: 1950 (2 million 52 km2) => 2016 (21 million 1500 km2) Urbanization in the periphery: colonial cities, administration, control, commerce, manage trade, planted, created to fulfill colonial functions, (cid:862)g(cid:396)afted(cid:863, utilized existing settlement, planning, copied from colonizing country, often unsuited to colony.
