Classify the urban area on the basic of population?

• Town (more than 5000ppl):

• The concept of ‘town’ can best be understood with reference to

‘village’. Population size is not the only criterion. Functional

contrasts between towns and villages may not always be clear cut,

but specific functions such as, manufacturing, retail and wholesale

trade, and professional services exist in towns.

City (more than 1 lac):

• A city may be regarded as a leading town, which has outstripped its

local or regional rivals. In the words of Lewis Mumford, “the city is

in fact the physical form of the highest and most complex type of

associative life”.

• Cities are much larger than towns and have a greater number of

economic functions. They tend to have transport terminals, major

financial institutions and regional administrative offices.

• When the population crosses the one million mark it is designated

as a million city.

• Conurbation (pop of 2 or more cities combined):

• The term conurbation was coined by Patrick Geddes in 1915 and

applied to a large area of urban development that resulted from the

merging of originally separate towns or cities. Greater London,

Manchester, Chicago and Tokyo are examples

Megalopolis (more than 10 million):

• This Greek word meaning “great city”, was popularized by Jean Gottman

(1957) and signifies ‘super- metropolitan’ region extending, as union of

conurbations. The urban landscape stretching from Boston in the north to

south of Washington in U.S.A. is the best known example of a

megalopolis.

• Million City (more than 10 lacs):

• The number of million cities in the world has been increasing as never

before. London reached the million mark in 1800, followed by Paris in

1850, New York in 1860, and by 1950 there were around 80 such cities.

The rate of increase in the number of million cities has been three-fold in

every three decades – around 160 in 1975 to around 438 in 2005.

Explanation:

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