Today in human geo class we took notes on Urban Geograpghy 

When and why did people start living in cities? 

                                                   Cities 
A city is a conglomeration of people and buildings clusterd together to serve as a center of politics, culture, and economics

Urban- The buildup of the central city and the suburban realm- the city and the surrounding environs connected to the city 

Example #1 

Shenzhen, China 

The modern process of Urbanization- A rural are can become urbanized quite quickly in the modern world 

Shenzhen changed from a fishing village to a major metropolitan area in just 25 years. 25 years ago all of this land was duck ponds and rice paddies 

                                             The first urban revolution 
Before urbanization, people often clustered together in agricultural villages 

Agricultural Villages- a relatively small, egalitarian village of where most of the population was involved in agriculture. About 10,000 years ago people began living  in agricultural villages 

That's all the notes we took today