Chapter 10 Lecture Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context Sixth Edition Wendy A. Mitteager State University of New York, Oneonta Urbanization
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Chapter 10 Lecture
Human Geography: Places and Regions in Global Context
Sixth Edition
Wendy A. MitteagerState University of New York, Oneonta
Urbanization
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• Primacy & centrality• Overurbanization• Megacities• Deindustrialization
Figure: Chapter 10 Opener Busy streets of Bamako, Mali, West Africa
Key Concepts
• Urbanization• Urban expansion• Gateway & shock cities• Central place theory
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Apply your knowledge: Provide examples of how the transformative capacity of urban settlements can be liberating for some people.
Urbanization
• Doubling time• Towns & cities role in human economic and
social organization– Mobilizing function– Decision-making capacity – Generative functions– Transformative capacity
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Figure 10.1 Urbanization, 2009
Urbanization, (cont'd)
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Figure 10.2 Rates of growth in urbanization, 2000–2010
Urbanization, (cont'd)
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• Urbanism
• Urban origins
Urbanization, (cont'd)
• Concerned with the similarities & differences among & within urban places
• Urban system
• Urban form
• Urban ecology
Figure 10.3 Erbil in northeast Iraq
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Figure 10.B Vienna: the coffee house was the classic setting in the golden age
Figure 10.A The buzz factor: meatpacking district of Manhattan
Cities and Civilization
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European Urban Expansion
• Feudalism• Towns depended on
role– Ecclesiastical or
university center– Defensive stronghold– Administrative
centers
• Gateway cities
Figure 10.5 Chartres, France
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European Urban Expansion, (cont'd)
Apply your knowledge: List probable gateway cities along the Atlantic seaboard of North America. What were their principle imports and exports?
Figure 10.6b The 13thC strategic center of Urbino, Italy
Figure 10.6a The walled medieval town of Aigues-Mortes, France
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European Urban Expansion, (cont'd)
Figure 10.8 The towns and cities of Europe, ca. 1350
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Gateway cities in the Evolving World-System Periphery
Figure 10.9 Gateway cities in the evolving world-system periphery
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Industrialization and Urbanization
• Transport networks• Shock city
Figure 10.10 The Burgundy canal in France
Figure 10.14 The urbanization process in the world's core regions
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Figure 10.12 Manchester, England: The "shock city" of the 19th C
Industrialization and Urbanization, (cont'd)
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Industrialization and Urbanization, (cont'd)
Apply your knowledge: How have the transportation technologies affected the history of the town or city in which you live?
Figure 10.13 Growth of Chicago
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Colonial Cities
• European imperialism
• "Established" or planted
• Colonial functions grafted onto an existing settlement Figure 10.15 Mumbai, an example of colonial
architecture and urban design
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Urban Systems
• Central place theory
• Rank-size rule• Primacy• Centrality• Connectivity• World cities
Figure 10.17 Functional specialization within an urban system
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Figure 10.16 The Spanish urban system
Urban Systems, (cont'd)
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Figure 10.18 Examples of urban centrality
Urban Systems, (cont'd)
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Urban Systems, (cont'd)
Figure 10.19 The "square mile" of the city of London
Table 10.1 Alpha-level world cities in 2088
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The World City Network
Figure 10.D Top 25 cities in the global cities index 2010
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World Urbanization Today
• Overurbanization• Squatter settlements• Megacities• Informal sector
Apply your knowledge: List the differences between megacities and world cities
Figure 10.20 Slum housing in Nairobi, Kenya, a peripheral city
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World Urbanization Today, (cont'd)
Figure 10.24 Child labor in India
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World Urbanization Today, (cont'd)
Figure 10.22 Mexico City
Figure 10.23 Mumbai
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The Core: Mature Metropolises
• Deindustrialization• Agglomeration
Diseconomics• Decentralization of
jobs and people• Counterurbanization• Reurbanization
Apply your knowledge:Identify a town or city that has experienced counterurbanization or reurbanization over the last 10 years. Provide reasons for this occurrence.
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The Pearl River Delta
Figure 10.E An extended metropolitan region
Figure 10.G Guangzhou, China
Figure 10.F City of Hong Kong
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Future Geographies
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End of Chapter 10
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