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P3 - 1intro - Humans in Eco Settings
P3 - 1intro - Humans in Eco Settings
AR 443A
Intro to Urban & Regional Planning
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• primitive technology
• small population size
• nomadic lifestyle
- Live healthy lives, well fed, and experienced low disease rates
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Agriculture
• knowledgeable on
domestic crops & animals
• urban based farming
more damaging than
subsistence farming
• disease more common for
city dwellers
• poor practices resulted to
widespread environmental
damage
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Agriculture
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Industrial
Society driven by the use
of technology to enable
mass production,
supporting large
population with a high
capacity for division of
labor
Industry
Boost human civilization
Increased population size
& demand for resources
Environmentally
destructive (pollution)
Altered human-
environment interaction
= unsustainable
growth
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Industry
•New technologies, energy
intensive
•Tremendous inputs of
materials
•Reduced number of workers
•Mass production and
modern technology
•Highly exploitive
•Industrial age diseases
•Widespread environmental
damage
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Globalization
The process of
international
integration arising from
the interchange of
world views, products,
ideas, and other
aspects of culture.
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