Geography 2060A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Metacity, Civitas, Global City
4 Apr 2020
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Nauru, singapore, belgium, least urbanized countries: burundi, papua new guinea, uganda. Largest megacities (>10m: tokyo, delhi, shanghai, ciudad de mexico, sao paulo. Global cities: london, new york, tokyo. A large human settlement with a: large # of people (over 5000+) that live and work there, has important societal functions (administrative, religious, economic, trade, transportation, so basically just common sense stuff. The word city is derived from latin civitas = citizenship or community member. Town, urban area, metropolis, metropolis, megalopis, ecumenoplois, metropolitcal area, megacity, metacity. Urban is obv the most percentage with 54% Within urban, most people live in fewer than 500,000, the next is 1-5m and then 10m or more. There are 500 cities worldwide that have more than 1m people. 50 of them have emerged as world or global cities (world city is the same as global city: london, new york, tokyo, paris, singapore, hong kong, washington, brussels,
