1. URBANIZATION
Process by which an increasing proportion of population lives in cities.
Metropolis -- large cities that exert influence over a region.
Megalopolis -- overlapping area consisting of at least two large cities and their suburbs.
Suburbs-- urban areas beyond the political boundaries of the city.

2. What are the problems confronting urban areas?
Urban renewal (gentrification) -- refurbishing of old buildings to put them to new use.
Read about what metropolitan statistical and consolidated metropolitan areas are.

3. Experiencing the City Ferdinand Toennies
Gemeinschaft -- people are bound closely together by kinship and tradition.
Gesellschaft -- people have weak social ties and are self interested.

4. Emile Durkheim
Mechanical solidarity -- social bonds based on collective conformity to tradition.
Organic solidarity -- social bonds based on interdependence.
Urban Ecology
link between physical and social dimension of cities.

5. Urbanization in Poor Countries.
Contain most of the world largest cities.
Cities have a tough time supporting the growing urban populations.
Why are people moving to cities?
What are the problems of urbanization in poor countries?