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| min pop of 1000 ppl & pop density of at least 400 pers/sq. km based on current census pop count. All terr outside urb. areas class as rural. Together urb & rural cover all Canada. |
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| 1 or more neighbouring municip. situated around major urb centre...divided using blocks... |
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| Characteristics of Folk Societies: |
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-Crude tools
-Lack of stable food supply
-Self sufficient & isolated
-small
-Governed by highly prescriptive norms
-Pre-literate
-Everybody did everything, no "trades" or "jobs" |
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1. Mesoamerica
2. Mesopotamia
3. Indas Valley
4. NE China
5. Egypt |
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| What preconditions are needed for cities to emerge? |
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1. Favourable "ecological" base, supportive of plants/wildlife
2. Advanced tech relative to pre-urb, both agri & non-agri
3. Complex social org./advanced power structure |
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| Why did cities come to exist? |
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1. Agricultural surplus, central authority needed for administration
2. Religion
3. Defense
4. Trade |
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| Characteristics of early cities: |
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-Small
-Reliance on animals for transport, or things must be in walking distance
-possibly assembled by hand, people smaller, less strong, not a lot of energy to spend on building |
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| Characteristics of Feudal Pre-Ind Societies: |
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-Tight connection between city & rural areas
-Agrarian, food surplus due to tech innovations
-Large, non-agri population, including "literati".
-System of writing- traditions & religious
specialists |
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| Characteristics of Feudal Pre-Ind Cities: |
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-Small
-Based around temples, ceremonial structures
-Lack of media, transport, storage |
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| How did the lack of storage affect the overall economy of the feudal pre-ind city? (Sjoberg reading) |
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| Lack of storage meant merchants kept no backstock or extras. They could only sell what they could carry or store. So it limited economic growth. |
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| How did the lack of transport affect early and pre-ind cities? (Sjoberg reading) |
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| It limited their growth because lack of outward mobility meant people largely stayed within the confines of the city because it would have been difficult or impossible to go, much less live outside the boundaries. (FIX) |
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| Class Structure in Feudal Pre-Ind Societies: |
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Well‐defined and rigid class structure
• clear‐cut division of labor according to age, sex,
and occupation
• privileged (“leisured”) upper class commands key
positions in political, religious, and educational
structures and exercises rather autocratic rule
• Most population of society lower class in city and
rural, as well as pastoral nomads (Middle East), or
fishing villages (Japan) |
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| Rome Facts: (c. 100 BC-c. 300 AD) |
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-Est. 1 Million population
-Major urban functions:
-administration of empire
-military armaments
-transport services
-local services |
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| Extension of power & dominon of nation especially by direct territorial acquisitions. |
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| Establishment & maintenance of rule for an extended period of time, by a sovereign power over subordinate & alien people separated from ruling group/power. |
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| How did the colonies fuel the economies of the colonizers? |
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| Raw materiels from colonies fuelled economies & colonies became new markets for export. |
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| Change from organized handicraft production to large-scale factory production |
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| What factors led to Manchester becoming the first industrial centre and the ind capital of the UK? |
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-Large coal deposits
-Flemish weavers brought in by the King introduced new ideas about production
-Businessmen had enough capital for investments and inventions
-At the heart of a colonial empire
-Different kind of bourgeois, businessmen not kings
-Protestantism emerges |
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| What factors led to the rise of industrialization? |
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-Coal mining
-Grazebrook Engine
-Rise of liberalism, Adam Smith says follow your heart
-Abadoning catholicism, which says work is punishment, in favour of protestantism, which says work brings closer to god
-Changing power structures, from feudalism to capitalism, from kings to businessmen |
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| Built in 1817 & used in Netherton at the ironworks of MW Grazebrook, helped fuel ind. rev. |
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| How did the application of industrialization to transport affect cities? |
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| Trains allowed cities to expand. (FIX) |
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| Working class/poor/proletariat housing sharply separated from the bourgeoisie & petit bourgeoisie |
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| What is the "boomerang effect" in relation to regions and where different classes have lived? |
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| Pre-ind soc, wealthy lived in centre, close to temples & landmarks. In ind. society, wealthy moved as far from the centre as possible to escape factories and poor. Now, in post-ind., people moving back to centre. |
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| In pre-industrial society, where would the rich have lived? |
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| In the centre, close to landmarks and religious temples. |
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| In industrial society, where did the rich live and why? |
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| The wealthy moved as far from the centre as possible to escape factories, crowds, noise, and poverty. Life expectancies in cities went down, a reversal of the usual trend. |
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| In the present post-industrial society, where are the wealthy living? |
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| People are moving back to the centre to live in "cool" places like abandoned factories. |
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| When did suburbs first appear? |
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| As early as the 13th century. |
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| Why are suburbs sometimes called bourgeois utopias? |
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| The bourgeois were the ones that had the money to move to the suburbs. Now the masses have become the bourgeois, in North America anyway. |
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| What are some key features of suburbs? |
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-Require more space
-Incorporate features of cabins, village houses
-Aristocratic |
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| Name some early industrial cities. |
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| Boston, Pittsburgh, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow |
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| What does the term "municipal socialism" mean? |
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| In the early 20th Century, local governments started to provide more services, welfare also introduced. In pre-industrial society, guilds would've served that function. |
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