Lecture One Urbanization New 2019
Lecture One Urbanization New 2019
Urbanization, Megacities,
Agglomerations etc.
Cities
• The human species has been on the earth
several millions of years. However humans have
lived in places without cities.
• Many if not most of us have spent the best part
of our life within an urbanized and city-like
environment
• Interestingly enough though, it seems that cities
in the span of history are, relatively speaking, a
creation of the last 7,000 to 10,000 years.
What is a City? There is not an agreed
upon definition of what a city is
• Environmental
• Resource Related
– Natural
– Housing
– Economic
• Social
• Health Related
Question
• On Urbanization
– What are some of the changes and or
behaviors that are associated with living in an
urban vs rural area?