world cities
- Created by: Share63
- Created on: 13-09-18 08:03
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- Nature
- Very large agglomerations of over 10 million people
- overurbanisation
- Mega cities cannot provide enough jobs infrastructure or services to support the population
- More residents than the economy of the city can support
- overurbanisation
- A large city that has outstripped its national boundaries and is a global centre for international trade and finance with global ,economic and cultural authority
- Major differences in economic and social circumstances
- Very large agglomerations of over 10 million people
- Spatial distribution
- 27/33 in developing countries
- High rural-urban migration due to agribusiness corporations and export-orientated cash cropping
- Majority in developed countries
- only one (Jo'burg) in Africa as a result of its poorly developed formal economy
- NYC, london and Toyko
- Subsystems
- Link national and regional economies into global system
- Subsystems
- NYC, london and Toyko
- only one (Jo'burg) in Africa as a result of its poorly developed formal economy
- 27/33 in developing countries
- Outsourcing of manufacturing to developing countries
- income inequality
- Mega cities
- World cities
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