Geography 2060A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Lybia, Ottoman Empire, Megacity
23 Apr 2016
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Chapter 7 cities of the greater middle east. One of most urbanized world regions (~9/10) ***one of most economically developed regions in the world: oil money (wealthy countries, still much poverty) Most urbanized: kuwait, qatar, israel (most economically developed) Least urbanized: tajikistan, kyrgyzstan, yemen (least economically developed) Why treat this area as a separate region? (not europe, africa, asia: unique identity, religion, language, politics, climate dry, arid, trade. Natural obstacles deserts, wind, heat, dust. Sites for urban development: hill, oasis, spring, headland, peninsula, river mouth, confluence of streams. Configuration of land and water trade routes. Gme has some of highest birth rates in the world: syria, iraq, yemen, palestine. Migration: rural urban areas, foreign immigrants (come to work in oil industry) Socialist city planning: government intervention in housing, microrayons, efficiency. ***refugees (jordan, syria, lebanon, turkey: require government housing (otherwise slums develop, unemployment, forced to move to foreign land (language, customs) Gme"s triangular urban core istanbul, cairo, tehran.
