Urban Geography

Today in human geography we started a new and final unit for the semester. This new unit is called urban geography. A new unit also means new vocabulary. I believe that this unit will end up breaking down into 3 different parts, politics, culture, and economics. But that is just my guess.

City= a conglomeration of people/buildings clustered together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics.

Urban= the build up of the central city and the suburban realm- the city and the surrounding environs connected to the city

Facts:

Almost half(50%) of the Earth's population live in urban areas/cites.

A rural area can become urbanized quite quickly in the modern world.

Shenzhen, China is an example of a rural area becoming urbanized very quickly. It only took 25 years for that area to totally change.

The first urban revolution:

Before urbanized people often clustered in agricultural villages

Agricultural villages= a relatively small, egalitarian villages, where most of the population was involved in agriculture
About 10,000 years ago, people began living in agriculture villages.
They soon learned "growing", and now they have a ready supply food. By growing food you can stay in one pace and have the chance to become civilized.