GPHY 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Counterurbanization, Dawson City, Gateway Cities

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 101
• Professor: Joyce Davidson

Document Summary

The united nations center for human settlements (unchs) says that the growth of cities and urbanization or rural areas are now irreversible because of the global shift to technological, industrial and service based economies. Half the world lives in cities, the urban population is growing twice as fast as the general population rate (expected to be 80% by 2050) Uncontrolled urbanization i leading to increased deaths in less developed countries. The urban areas of the world are the linchpins (a person or thing vital to an enterprise or organization) of human geographies at the local, regional and global scales. The earliest urbanization developed independently in the various hearth areas of the first agricultural revolution (urban empires of rome, greece and byzantium) The expansion of global trade associated with colonialism and imperialism, established numerous gateway cities. The industrial revolution generated new kinds of cities and many of them.