GEOG 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Urban Geography, Plate Tectonics, Doubling Time
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Plate tectonics, tornados, volcanoes, earthquakes, water movement. Human geography- how humans influenced earth (what we are going to be learning) Economics, food produced, culture, religion, languages, demographics, urban geography. Population has been rapidly growing, doubling time . Population is increasing at a decreasing rate. Urban geography- spatial examination of cities and its working dynamics. Areas dominated by some sort of economic functions 4. Institutions, modes of transportation, infrastructure (man-made structures), culture. 2008- more people reside in an urban area. Nicaragua- 1,000 people per set area usa- 2,500 people per set area greece- 10,000 people per set area. Sub-sahara africa is the only region that has not urbanized. Burundi: least urbanized country (only 11% live in urban area) singapore: most urbanized (100%) Can argue that this city is the largest metropolitan city. Megacity- large city (10 million people at least) Megalopolis- spanding connection of at least 3 major cities or more.
