1. Urbanization Key Points
Adapted from Knox
Urbanization Key Points

2. Urban Areas are Key to HG
Economic development
Centers of cultural innovation
Social transformation
Political change
More than ½ the world’s population

3. Independent Development
Earliest cities developed independently in hearth areas of 1st agricultural revolution
1st region = Middle East
Greece, Rome, Byzantium later

4. Gateway Cities Created by expansion of trade
Associated with colonialism/imperialism
Most were ports
Command centers controlling entry/exit

5. Impact of Industrial Revolution
New kinds of cities, and lots of them
Large labor force, transportation, infrastructure of factories, warehouses, stores, markets
Increased pace of urbanization

6. Core-Periphery Trends
1950 – 2/3 of urban population was in the core/MDCs
Majority of growth now in periphery/LDCs

7. World Cities
Control centers for flows of information, cultural products, an finance
Sustain economic & cultural globalization

9. Centrality Many megacities of the periphery are primate cities
Exhibit centrality – most cultural, economic, political activity

10. Globalization & Urbanization
Networked infrastructures – transportation, information & communication
Uneven development
Serve only certain kinds of metropolitan areas
“splintering” effect on patterns of urbanization

11. Concentric Zone

12. Sector

13. Multiple Nuclei

15. Urban Models in MDCs/LDCs
For each region, identify:
Three primate cities
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Latin America
Sub-Saharan Africa
Southeast Asia