GGRA03H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sustainable Development, Urban Sprawl, Quality Of Life
Document Summary
-megacities are city-regions with more than 10 million population. -most megacities are in the global south, and the number of megacities is growing rapidly. -the number for us to define megacities is changing because the population is growing. -megacities often face particular characteristics as a result of their size: increased pollution levels, traffic congestion, infrastructural inequality, high land and housing prices, governance challenges. -clear difference between 1 million people and 10 million people. Example of megacities: mexico city, tokyo, shanghai, mumbai. -we talk about it, because there are growing number of megacities. -this term generally refers to a discourse of fear of the city, often produced and reproduced through a variety of literary, artistic, media, cinematic and photographic representations of urban places. -today, social stereotypes about big, crowded cities have their root in historical fears about the industrial city. -very large cities tend to have particular diseconomies of scale and economies of scale.
