GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Marlon Brando, Land Law, Greater Mexico City
8 Jul 2016
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Text: high rise offices and favelas in sao paulo (graph) Historical and projected population in rural and urban latin america: when are the rural and urban populations roughly equal, not how rural population stays the same ( surplus ?) Urbanization: comparing latin america to other world regions (graph) Latin america is the second most urbanized region in the world after north america. (image) Greater mexico city area: 20 million (image) Shows you where the big cities are (table) Even though latin america is urban, there are differences. The percentage of people living in cities correlates to the human development index. How well people are doing, like health, life expectancy, etc. Central american countries are the poorer countries. Relatively low development : central america, northern part of south america (map) There are issues with how wealth is distributed. Argentina and chile are the wealthier countries. They look more like canada, less poor people. Rates of economic growth (not current wealth) (graph)
