  Ancient Cities  Cities of the Middle Ages  Cities of the Industrial Era  Cities of the Post Industrial Era? Time Periods of Cities

  Developed around 6000 years ago  Required an agricultural surplus so that people could be employed in non agricultural jobs  Centered on the temple, the priests, the ruler, the palace district, the market  Walls  Draw a plan of an ancient city! Ancient Cities

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  Centered on regional and interregional trade  Guilds  Infrastructure like mills, sawmills, trade fairs, international banking houses  Walls became ever bigger as siege weapons became stronger  Draw a plan of a city in the Middle Ages! Cities of the Middle Ages

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  Much more spatially extensive  Centered on railroads and mass transportation to move workers and materials to factories  Centered on housing for workers  Draw a plan of an industrial city! Industrial Cities

  What is the center of the post industrial city?  Draw a plan! Post Industrial

  Developed world urban populations as percentage of population max out at 80% - why? Current Trends in Cities

  Almost all urban growth is happening in the developing world, for two reasons:  The percent urban in the developing world is going up.  Cities in the developing world are huge!!!!!!! Current Trends in Cities

  Rural Landlessness: What causes it? Talk to partners.  Rural Landlessness: What is the result? Talk to partners. Current Trends in Cities

  Conurbations: from Latin root “con” meaning with – so a “with city”, a city with another city  Examples? Current Trends in Cities

  Largest type of conurbations: Megalopolis (plural: megalopolises or megalopoleis or megalopoli)  Examples?  So all megalopoli are conurbations, but not all conurbations are megalopoli.  “Big City” Polis = Greek for city Mega = Greek for really big Current Trends in Cities

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  Using an Atlas from the back of the room, label the following cities on your map:  What do they all have in common? New york Los Angeles Mexico City Rio de Janeiro Buenos Aires Sao Paulo Lagos Cairo Baghdad Karachi Delhi Mumbai Dhaka Kolkata Jakarta Beijing Shanghai Manila Tokyo Osaka

  Slums (what do we call them? Why?)  Our World Living With Slums(philiphines) Important Trend