AHSS*3050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Global City, Homicide, Greater Toronto Area
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Learning objectives: mapping urbanization, navigating demographic transitions, assessing urbanization and the rise of megacities: poverty reduction and economic precarity, assessing relationships between city size, population growth and homicide rates, examining housing segregation based on income in us cities. Investigating gang violence homicide rates in canadian cities: charting housing preferences: suburbanization, sprawl and the vertical city, identifying global cities, mapping urbanization. 19th century industrial revolution in europe and later north america fueled population shift from rural to urban and population growth. By 2008, of the world"s population lived in cities. Industrialization resulted in greater economic growth, which is now fueling growth in the global south (asia, africa, latin america: navigating demographic transitions. Stage 1: high number of births and deaths result in minimal growth. Stage 2: urbanization and industrialization: declining death rates but high birth rates remain, resulting in explosive population growth and a young population profile.
