Unhappy with your grade on the last exam? Try these strategies!

•Come to every lecture. Hearing things different ways helps!

•Read the chapter before lecture. Hearing things twice means you’ll retain information.

•Focus. Stop checking Facebook during lecture.

•Use your smartphone to make flashcards with definitions of key terms.

•Hit your TA up for help during office hours

GOOD LUCK!

QUIZ #5 OPENS MONDAY AT 4:00

Chapter 10 review

Chapter 10 review

Urbanization:Life in the City

Beijing

Urbanization: Key questions

Why is urbanization is one of the most important geographic phenomena in today’s world.

How do changes in the world economy drive urbanization?

How do rapidly growing populations strain city infrastructures?

What effects do inadquate infrastructures and services have on urban populations?

I. What role do cities play in the world?

Mobilize: Organize labor, capital and raw materials to produce goods and drive economies.

Make Decisions: Cities concentrate political and economic institutions and concentrate power, so decisions get made.

I. What role do cities play in the world (cont.)?

Generate innovation: By concentrating people in one space, cities promote collaboration, competition, and the development of new ideas.

Transform populations: The size and anonymity of city life liberates people to participate in new lifestyles and behaviors.

How do we think about cities?

Urban Systems: a group of related cities in a region.

Urban form: the built environment

Urban ecology: the social and demographic composition of neighborhoods

NYC neighborhood

THE RISE OF CITY LIFE

Histories of Urban Development

The rise of cities

City life arose in the ancient Middle East---from 3500 BC!

Large scale political organization is key to the rise of cities.

Political elites organize taxation, building, and the control of labor

Erbil, Iraq: The world’s oldest city.6000 years of continuous occupation

European Urbanization

Rome, the seat of empire, is Europe’s first big city.

Other cities emerge in the medieval period: university centers, religious centers, defensive strongholds, administrative centers

Jagiellonian University, Krakow

The Rise of Gateway Cities

Gateway cities link one country or region with others.

Developed in 15th-17th centuries for trade and colonial administration.

Often port cities: Rio de Janeiro, Accra, Buenos Aires.

Industrialization

The industrial revolution created new city spaces in the early 19th c.

Large pools of labor and extensive physical infrastructure (like factories).

The countryside empties and people leave for the city

Cotton mills in Manchester, 1850

Shock Cities

Manchester: 1750: 15,000 1801: 70,000 1911: 2.3 million

Chicago: 1850: 30,000 1880: 500,000 1900: 1.7 million 1930: 3.3 million

Chicago: city of industrial agriculture

WHAT DO CITIES LOOK LIKE TODAY?

Contemporary City Forms

Primate Cities

Primate cities: world cities disproportionately larger than second cities

Violate the rank-size rule Nth largest city should

be 1/n the size of largest city

Are “central places” that are functionally dominant

World Cities

*Organize space beyond their own national boundaries

*Originally colonial or imperial cities: Istanbul, London, Genoa, Lisbon

*Today: are key sites of TNC organization, international finance, supranational government, and commodity markets.

(Examples?)

*Benefit from agglomeration effects.

World Cities: Spheres of Influence

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Peripheral and Semi-peripheral megacities

Population: 10 million and up.

Industrialization in peripheral and semi-peripheral cities leads to high rates of urbanization

Related to demographic transition

Mexico City: Megacity

Overurbanization

Urban population grows faster than jobs and city services.

Produces urban slums

Lack housing, education, basic sanitation, employment, and emergency services

Kill more than 10 million people per year from disease

Brazilian favela

Lagos: City of Slums

TAKE-HOME POINTS

Increasing population growth and industrialization has led to the rise of megacities.

These cities are largely in the periphery

With relatively low GDP, they have a hard time providing housing, education, and sanitation.

Poor living conditions affect the lives of millions of people