GGR100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Primate City, Decolonization, Informal Sector
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This region is not considered as a urbanized region, but more like rural, South africa is one of the regions which is more visited and has a tourist growth rate, and economicaly has removed it self from other countries, Sub- saharan africa is known that people do no live in urban cities, and they activities are not associated with urbanization, they do more like coal mining and farmin and so on. 75% of the housing is self built, vast majority of informal activity. No need to study the historical sections - Sub saharan africa is the location of pre-historical arechology, cities have been built on top of another. Rush of colonization - which had eurpean powers controling this region. The belgians and french did not invest much in this countries. They were not left with infrastructure to start the development.
