Chapter 14 Population and Urbanization

Population in Global Perspective No Space for Enjoying Life? The New Malthusians The Anti-Malthusians Who Is Correct? Why Are People Starving? © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

How Fast is the World’s Population Growing?

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Population Growth Why the Least Industrialized Nations Have So Many Children Consequences of Rapid Population Growth Population Pyramids as a Tool for Understanding The Three Demographic Variables © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Population Growth –Fertility –Mortality –Migration Problems in Forecasting Population Growth © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

World Population Growth,

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Countries of Origin of Unauthorized Immigrants to the United States

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Urbanization The Development of Cities The Process of Urbanization U.S. Urban Patterns –From Country to City © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Urbanization –From City to City –Between Cities –Within the City –From City to Suburb –Smaller Centers The Rural Rebound © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

A Global Boom: Cities with over One Million Residents

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Models of Urban Growth The Concentric Zone Model The Sector Model The Multiple-Nuclei Model The Peripheral Model © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Models of Urban Growth Critique of the Models –They are Time-Bound –They Do Not Account for Urban Planning –Fall Short with Cities in Least Industrialized Nations © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

How Cities Develop: Models of Urban Growth

City Life Alienation in the City –Example of Deletha Word –Impersonality and Self-Interest –Avoid Needless Interactions Community in the City –Gans Research © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

City Life Who Lives in the City? –The Cosmopolites –The Singles –The Ethnic Villagers –The Deprived –The Trapped –Critique © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

City Life The Norm of Noninvolvement and the Diffusion of Responsibility –Laboratory Findings and the Real World –The diffusion of responsibility helps to explain why people can ignore the plight of others © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Urban Problems and Social Policy Suburbanization –Movement of People from Cities to Suburbs –City Centers Lose in Transition – City vs. Suburb –Suburban Flight Some suburbs are becoming mirror images of the city that their residents so despise © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Urban Problems and Social Policy Disinvestment and Deindustrialization –Bankers draw a line around a problem area & refuse to make loans for housing there The Potential of Urban Revitalization –Public Sociology –Most actions taken to solve urban problems are window dressings for politicians © 2013 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

Urban Growth and Urban Flight

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