URBANIZATION

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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.

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• 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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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?