Friday, October 5, 2012

Chapter 4: Urban Life


The city of San Fernando is an urban area that is only about 20 miles away from one of the world’s largest metropolitan areas. In 2010, it was estimated that Los Angeles was one of the most populated cities in the United States with a total population of 9,819,000 people. There have been large amounts of development in the region and urban sprawl.  Los Angeles is known as being part of a Megalopolis region meaning that it is a very large city.
 The following map shows where the biggest concentration of the population is located. It is easy to see that the coastal Southern region of California has the densest population. With the proximity of the City of San Fernando to the Megalopolis of southern California, it is easy for the residents of San Fernando to get caught up in life of a metropolitan area. This includes traffic, pollution, land changes, and high population density. Many residents of San Fernando look for work in the metropolitan area of Los Angeles and its surrounding cities.

 





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