1. Global Urban Patterns

2. A. 2nd Urban Revolution Industrialization
Enclosure Mvmt. Growth of Cities
Industrial Cities
Near : Water Textiles/Coal (Iron)
“Unregulated Jumbles”
Pollution: “Black Towns”

4. B. Modern Urbanization Industrialization accelerated urbanization
Increasing labor productivity in agriculture meant surplus labor
surplus labor found “better” jobs in cities
Agriculture was productive enough to feed the population even though the # of labor was less
Now, more than half the world’s population lives in cities
3/4 of people living in MDC’s live in urban areas while 2/5 of people living in LDC’s live in urban areas

5. Trends in World Urbanization

6. C. Cities of the Periphery
European & Indigenous patterns
Recent Massive Migration Patterns
Globalization
Dakar, Senegal
Beirut, Lebanon
Shanghai, China

7. D. Latin America Central Plaza Elites live in Central City
Growing Suburbs
Disamenity Sectors
Growing CBD

8. Latin American City (Griffin-Ford model)

9. Disamenity sector – very poorest parts of the city ex
Disamenity sector – very poorest parts of the city ex. the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

10. E. African City Fastest Urbanizing
Difficult to Characterize due to diversity
Imprint of Colonialism
South Africa similar to West (Eur. And US)
Open Air Market
Multiple CBD’s
Johannesburg, South Africa

11. The African City (de Blij model)

12. F. Southeast Asia Colonial Port Zone Elites near Port/CBD
Squatter Areas
New Middle Class
Western Commercial Zone

13. Southeast Asian City (McGee model)

14. G. Trends in Periphery Large Migration into Cities “Pull Factor”
Mega Cities
Primate Cities
Cannot keep up with new migrants: Shantytowns; favelas (in Brazil)
No Zoning Laws

15. H. Modern Urbanization
Megacity – city with more than 10 million people; ex: Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Seoul

16. Megacities

17. Megacities in 2015

18. I. Megalopolis
Megalopolis – a “super-city” made up of several large and small cities; ex: BosNYWash

19. K. Rank-Size Rule
the relationship between the ranks of cities and their populations
the relationship is such that the nth largest city in a country or region is 1/n the size of the largest city in that country or region.
For example:
largest city = 12 million
2nd largest = 6 million
3rd largest = 4 million
4th largest = 3 million

20. L. Primate City
The leading city of a country. The city is disproportionately larger than the rest of the cities in the country.
For example: London, UK
Mexico City, Mexico
Paris, France
- the rank-size rule does not work for a
country with a primate city