Urbanization and the future of cities - Vance Kite
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Published 2013-09-12
About 10,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers, aided by rudimentary agriculture, moved to semi-permanent villages and never looked back. With further developments came food surpluses, leading to commerce, specialization and, many years later with the Industrial Revolution, the modern city. Vance Kite plots our urban past and how we can expect future cities to adapt to our growing populations.
Lesson by Vance Kite, animation by ATMG Studio.
All Comments (21)
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did anyone else's teacher bring them here
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I should be studying right now
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Let’s be honest , our geography teacher brought us here ! Like me :V
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It's sad we make more food than we need but there are still ppl in need of food and water
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In summary : Settlements were possible due to agricultural developments. This went further to produce surplus. This surplus could be traded with people who could not produce food and instead produced goods other than food.This trade improved in only some parts of the world and were turned to cities where people came to settle and seek jobs. This went on till Industrial revolution. And now, it will go on developing
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Here are my answers to the questions I got about this video: 1. One hundred years ago, what fraction of the world’s population lived in cities? Only two out of ten people lived in a city. 2. What led to the development of the first permanent towns and cities? When humans learned farming techniques like irrigation and soil tilling, they could rely on a steady and long-term supply of food. This allowed humans to make permanent towns and cities. 3. Where is most of the world’s future population growth expected to happen? Most of the future population growth is expected to happen in the urban areas of the world’s poorest countries. 4. List three ways the video says that cities need to change, in order to accommodate future population growth. -The world will need to seek ways to provide adequate food, sanitation, and education for all people. -Growth will need to happen in a way that does not damage the land. -Power will need to come from multiple sources of renewable energy.
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POV: You're here because your teacher made you watch this
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This is like when 100 years ago people imagined how the future would be
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I learned more in these 4 min than the whole day at school.
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humans: we need something for population control coronavirus: why u running away tho!!
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2020, expectations- flying cars, houses on Mars Reality- corona
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Full of respect for people developing urbanisation... Thanks for reporting
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"Increasing connected and global world" - They literally chopped New Zealand off of the map, how is that connected?
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Lol who else is here during COVID and some of these comments are from 6 years ago and they didn’t even know what COVID is😂
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Please change the name of the video to Urbanization and the wishful future of cities.
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What a knowledgeable video! Thank you for making this video for us.
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I’m supposed to be taking notes but instead I’m focusing on the hungry jacks as that popped up
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Quite a shallow overview. By avoiding all controversial points about the history of urbanization, this becomes void of meaning. I also got the sense of a linear progression towards its current state, but it was not a smooth line of progression. Many civilizations had interesting approaches to large settlements.
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Jacque Fresco's ideas are being picked up more and more. Great animation
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The watercolor illustrations are lovely!
