GGR207H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Kondratiev Wave, Core Countries, Modernization Theory
Document Summary
Some of the growth is via urbanization by implosion. Rural places are growing so dense that they surpass threshold and becomes a city. Land reformation: government (usually socialist/communist) divide up the land into suburban size for farmers. Poor people can own land, instead of wealthy people owning huge land. Population grows with more small farmers - exceeds and becomes urban. Also in super dense slums in poor nations: slums become an urban city. Huge increase urban population growth in semi-peripheral and peripheral regions. Historic origin in the world wars - political terms. Third world: non-aligned countries (not from poverty or colonization) Third world urbanization is differs from first world. Developed countries have median on over 10 000. Sub-saharan, india, china have high population earning near the poverty line. Associate with after the global economy collapse in the kondratieff cycle. Ending the slave trade - colonials scramble to occupy global south.
