GEOG 101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Centrality, Demographic Transition, Think Tank
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Global city/world city- a city in which disproportionate part of the world s most important business is conducted. Serves as a financial center, cultural center, command points (hq s), leader in innovation and markets. Mega city- a very large city characterized by both primacy and high centrality within its national economy. Major cities in the periphery that are much larger than the second biggest city in the country. While they do not function as world cities, they do provide important intermediate roles between the upper tiers of the system of world cities and the provincial towns and villages of large regions in the world. Slums- associated with the demographic transition model. As fewer jobs are available in rural areas, many people migrate to the cities in search of better opportunity. This large population increase creates higher competition for jobs and those who do not find jobs cluster together in slums.
