World Cities Large & in Charge

Primate City The leading city of a country. The city is disproportionately larger than the rest of the cities in the country. (Some books define as – The largest city…) For example: London, UK Mexico City, Mexico Paris, France - the rank-size rule does not work for a country with a primate city

1Mexico CityFederal District8,841,916 2Ecatepec de MorelosState of Mexico1,734,701 3TijuanaBaja California1,590,420 4Puebla 1,590,256 5GuadalajaraJalisco1,564,514 6Ciudad JuárezChihuahua1,407,849 7LeónGuanajuato1,397,446 8ZapopanJalisco1,260,381 9MonterreyNuevo León1,138,711

Primate City These cities tend to represent the perceived culture of the country.

Rural Population Year% Rural Population

World Maps of Urban Pop. % of total Pop. in Urban Areas % of Urban pop. In cities of less than 500,000 & of Urban pop in cities of 5 mil or more Africa Asia L. America N. America Europe Oceania World

World Cities

Megacities Large cities characterized by both primacy and a high degree of centrality within their national economy – population of 10 million+ UN anticipates by 2015 – 22 cities of 10 mil.+ –With some cities at 25 mil.+ –Fastest growing cities are not in core regions

Largest Cities Ten Most Populous in A.D Tokyo 19.8 million 2. New York 15.9 million 3. Shanghai 11.4 million 4. México 11.2 million 5. São Paulo 9.9 million 6. Osaka 9.8 million 7. Buenos Aires 9.1 million 8. Los Angeles 8.9 million 9. Paris 8.9 million 10. Beijing 8.5 million Source: U.N., 2001 * Note that five of these cities are in the Core or more developed world.

Megacities Ten Most Populous Today

Largest Cities Ten Most Populous by A.D Tokyo 28.7 million 2. Bombay 27.4 million 3. Lagos 24.4 million 4. Shanghai 23.4 million 5. Jakarta 21.2 million 6. São Paulo 20.8 million 7. Karachi 20.6 million 8. Beijing 19.4 million 9. Dhaka, Bangladesh 19.0 million 10. México 18.8 million Source: U.N., 2001 * Note that only one of these cities is in the Core of the more developed world!

Megacities examples Bangkok Beijing Cairo Kolkata (Calcutta) Dhaka Jakarta Lagos Manila Mexico City New Delhi Sao Paulo Shanghai Tehran

Overurbanization – cities grow more rapidly than the jobs and housing they can sustain. Leading to –Instant slums, open sewers, no basic utilities –Squatter settlements- Chile – callampas (mushroom cities) Turkey – gecekondu (built after dusk and before dawn) India – bustees Tunisia – gourbevilles Brazil – favelas (a wildflower that live on the hillsides over Brazil) Argentina – villas miserias Peru - barriadas Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – 80% of pop. are homeless or live in unfit housing