What is a city?
A conglomeration of people and buildings clusterred together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics
What is a CMA?
Census metropolitan area >100000
What is a CA?
Census agglomeration > 10000
What is urban area?
Defined on the basis of how the city is built up
What is conurbation?
A built-up area formed by several expanding cities that were once separate
What four topics are studies in this course of geography?
- Political
- Cultural
- Environmental
- Economic
Why is there such a large increase of births in the modern age?
People are born and dying at relatively same time
What are the percentages of uban population as a whole since 1800s?
6% in 1800
29% in 1950
47% in 2000
today 57%
68% in 2050
(moreso in africa/less developed countries)
What are the 3 stages of the growth theory?
- Initial stage
- Acceleration stage
- Terminal stage
What is the growth theory?
Positoin of country with respect to urban growth can be measured by urbaniatoin curve
What happens in the initial phase of the growth stage?
- Population mainly in rural areas
- Engaged in primary sector employment
What happens in the accelerating stage of the growth theory?
- Growth in industrial sector
- Mass rural to urban migration
What happens in the terminal stage of the growth theory?
- Rate of urban increases declines
- Population disperses or moves to areas not considered urban
What is a mega city?
Cities with 10 million or more people
What is urbanization?
Process involving 2 phases:
1. Movement of people from rural to urban places
2. Peoples change from rural to urban lifestyle
What is urbanism?
- Refers to all aspects of the urban way of like
- Political, economic, social
- Not a process of urban growth, but the end result
What is an urban form?
- Describes a city’s morphology
- Vertical and horizontal dimesnions of a city
What is an urban function?
- Economic orientation of a city
What is a central city?
Main city around which suburbs have grown
What is a suburb?
A mixed use or residential district located on the outskirts of a city
