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URBANIZATION
or
Outline
1. Global patterns of urbanization
2. Differences in urbanization between MDCs and
LDCs
3. Urbanization and the population question
4. Urban service provision and urban economies in
LDC cities
Urbanization
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<1.5X
~3X
% of population living
in urban areas in
major world regions,
1950, 1975, 2000 and 2025
~4X
~3X
2X
Sources of Urbanization
Outline
1. Global patterns of urbanization
2. Differences in urbanization between MDCs and
LDCs
3. Urbanization and the population question
4. Urban service provision and urban economies in
LDC cities
LDCs
Rapid urbanization without
proportional industrialization
(population growth, land
tenure)
By 2020 majority of LDC
population will live in urban
areas of 1 million+
By 2020 most megacities of
10 million+ will be in LDCs
Urbanization
MDC urbanization
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LDC urbanization
2000 years
400 years
115 years
20 years
Share of World Population Growth Urban and Rural Areas LDCs and MDCs 1950 to 2025
Over the next quarter century, increases in urbanization will be almost entirely attributable
to sub-Saharan Africa and Asia
Outline
1. Global patterns of urbanization
2. Differences in urbanization between MDCs and
LDCs
3. Urbanization and the population question
4. Urban service provision and urban economies in
LDC cities
Share of World Population Growth Urban and Rural Areas LDCs and MDCs 1950 to 2025
Over the next quarter century, increases in urbanization will be almost entirely attributable
to sub-Saharan Africa and Asia
1766-1834
I SAID that population, when unchecked, increased in a geometrical ratio, and subsistence for
man in an arithmetical ratio.
Thomas Malthus. 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population
Available at http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/
Pop.
Subsistence
Time
1766-1834
But his analysis of population growth has been used to naturalize the idea of
overpopulation as a purely mathematical problem ---> buries struggles for power (politics)
in apparently objective language of math.
www.pivotlegal.org/pivot/points/DownEast.htm
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