Lecture 1 Flashcards
What are some defining factors of when you know you are in a city?
○ Structures (buildings, roadways, manicured vegetation)
○ Behaviour (rushing, more people in general)
○ Things (cars truck, public transportation)
○ Environment (temp, high wind, sounds)
A city is A large human settlement with what 2 requirements?
- Large # of people (>5000+) live and work there
* Fills important societal functions (administrative, religious, economic, trade, transportation)
Where does the word city derive from?
Word derived from Latin (civitas)
- meaning citizenship or community member (working together working towards a common goal)
What are other names for cities?
Urban Habitation
City Proper
Urban Agglomeration
Metropolitan
From the UN how do you determine a boundary of a city?
From the UN there is No standardized international criteria exist for determining the boundaries of a city
Multiple different boundary definitions are available for any given city
What is the universally accepted definition of a city?
There isn’t one
What is a city proper based on?
Based on political boundaries
What is a urban agglomeration based on?
Multiple cities that have grown together
What is a metropolitan area based on?
Census area
-encompasses workers and commuters into the city centre
What is the difference between a meta, mega and large city?
Meta: 20 million or more
Mega: 10 million or more
-started in the 90’s
Large: 5-10 million
Where do most urban people live?
Most urban people live in small urban cities like London
How man cities are there worldwide with more than 1 million people?
500
What are world/global cities?
Have economic influence on the world
• Transactional nodes that function as the command-and-control (decision-making) centers of the world economy (from the satelite view they shine the brightest).
Strategic sites that run the world
What are some examples of global cities?
- London, New York, Tokyo, Paris (the most influence, worlds biggest companies here)
- Singapore, Hong Kong, Washington, Brussels
- Toronto, Chicago, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Shanghai (some cities doesn’t have a ton of people but still has a big impact on the world economy)
What are the leaders in producer services?
Banking and Markets Accounting Advertising Law Real Estate
What are producer services?
Businesses serving businesses
-where you have these, you have a global city,
What are hubs for innovation rich in?
Human capital (people come and go because they are drawn to theses places, popular culture starts here). -More progressive, magnet for migrants, talent and thrive in diversity
- Dominate popular culture through their powerful media outlets and creative industries
- Open to new people and ideas; magnet for migrants; thrive on diversity
there is a shift in cities and nations, what is it?
Cities in some respect are greater/more important on the world stage instead of nations
What are different ways to asses cities?
population
economics
liveability (assess stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure in 140 different cities.)
-these dont have to be world cities
What are the 2 ways in which you can describe leading cities based on demography and number of people?
Demographic tradition (# of people)
Functional tradition (network, relationship)
What is Functional tradition (network, relationship)?
represented in studies of world and global cities which are interpreted as integral to contemporary globalization processes. (flow of capital)
What is Demographic tradition (# of people)?
represented by the mega-city project, which is exploring the human and ecological implications of contemporary and future huge population concentrations
Are all world cities mega cities?
World city does not = megacity
What % of the population live in urban cities?
55% of people now live in urban cities vs in the 1800 there was only 3% of people lived in cities
What are the trends for populations living in urban areas, rural areas and the overall world population?
Urban population increasing and rural marginally increasing or even decreasing, and overall for the world the population is increasing and will reach a peak until the trend will eventually decrease, same with urban populations
What is urbanization?
refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to this change
-Change in lifestyle/livelihood
What will the urbanization trends look like by 2050?
Asia and Africa will have the biggest growth and the biggest cities in the world in the future
