Thursday, January 9, 2014

urban geography

City= a conglomeration of people/buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics.
Urban= the build up of the central city and the suburban realm- the city and the surrounding environs connected to the city

Facts:
Almost half(50%) of the Earth's population live in urban areas/cites.
A rural area can become urbanized quite quickly in the modern world.
Shenzhen, China is an example of a rural area becoming urbanized very quickly. It only took 25 years for that area to totally change.

The first urban revolution:
Before urbanized people often clustered in agricultural villages

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