Third world countries and stages of colonial urbanization

1. Third world urbanization in
historical context and stages of
colonial urbanization
AZOOSHA ANSAR
18061508-018
GEOGRAPHY

3. Defines 3rd world
 Poor or developing nations
 Countries that are part of
the third world are
characterized by
1. High rates of poverty
2. Economics / political
instability
3. High mortality rates

4. What is third world urbanization ?
 Strong concentration of
population in large cities
 43% of the urban
population currently lives in
cities
 Population of over 500,000

5. What is mean of third world countries
?
 This term means that the economically
underdeveloped countries of south Asia , Sub-
Saharan Africa, and Latin America,
 considered as an entity with common
characteristics, such as
 poverty
 high birthrates,
 economic dependence on the advance countries

8. in Asia, European coastal cities such as Calcutta and Bombay became major
metropolitan centers.

9. Sub-Saharan Africa
sub-Saharan Africa the main urban centers of Johannesburg, Cape Town,
Nairobi and Salisbury were all founded by Europeans

10. Latin America
In Latin America the cities of the Incas and Aztecs were demolished

11.  In general, European cities
prospered throughout the Third
World. However, the nature of
colonial impact varied:
 Backward, weak economies
 All sought economic profit, but
methods of exploitation varied,
with the British preferring indirect
rule through advisers
 Colonial and pre-colonial
influence varied over time

12. STAGES OF
COLONIAL
URBANISATION

13. STAGES OF COLONIAL
URBANISATION
1. MERCANTILE COLONIALISM
2. THE TRANSITIONAL PHASE
3. INDUSTRIAL COLONIALISM
4. LATE COLONIALISM
5. THE EARLY INDEPENDENCE PERIOD
6. NEO-COLONIALISM AND THE NEW
INTERNATIONAL DIVISION OF LABOUR

14. 1500 MERCANTILE COLONIALISM
• Limited colonial
presence in existing
ports.
• Trade usually in
natural products of
local region

15. 1800 THE TRANSITIONAL PHASE
• Reduced European interest in
investment overseas.
• Greater profits to be made in
the industrial revolution

16. 1850 Industrial colonialism
• European need for cheap raw
materials and food.
• Colonialism takes territorial form,
new settlement patterns and
morphology created

17. 1920 LATE
COLONIALISM
• Intensification of European morphological
influence. Extension to smaller towns in
hierarchy.
• Increased ethnic segregation

18. 1950 Early independence
• Rapid growth of
indigenous
populations through
migration in search of
jobs.
• Expansion of slum
and squatter
settlements

19. 1970 New international
division of labour
• Appearance of multinational
corporation factories. Further
migration growth of cities.
• Increasing social polarization

20. Delhi: the evolution of an
imperial city
 The pre-colonlal city
 The period of co-existence, 1803–57
 Colonial consolidation, 1857–1911
 Imperial Delhi, 1911–47

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