Effects of Urbanization

Recent data has shown that the world’s total population is doubling; however, the world's urban population is tripling. In the early 1800s, only 2 percent of the world’s population lived in urban areas (Urbanization; an environmental force to reckon with). This is a sharp contrast to what we have today. The promise of ample job opportunities, higher wages, and a better standard of living have been the main luring factors for attracting people into cities. Today about 50 percent of the world’s population lives in urban areas. It is estimated that by 2050 about 60-70 percent of the world’s population will be living in urban areas (Urbanization; an environmental force to reckon with). This growth trend of the urban populace is troubling since it has tremendous bad effects on our environment which in turn has bad effects on our health and well-being.

When we speak of the term urbanization – the outward expansion of human population from the city-centre, many feel the sense of triumph about the current living conditions, and are enlightened to do great works on the planet. Of course, it is not wrong if one feels this sense of triumph at first, but the ambiguity comes when the environmental aspect is placed in the talk. In this capitalistic world where money and status are worshiped, many negative effects associated with urbanization are being forgotten or dismissed.

Sustainable Development is a term, which is defined as the development that caters sustainability of the present environment in order to meet its needs and at the same time, ensures that the present development would not in any way harm the future environment for the future generations (Bartelmus, 2011). In the year 1987, the World Commission on Environment and Development published a report that concentrated on dealing with the issues related to

Disasters are bound to strike at a given time and they more often find us unaware, this is the sole reason why the majority of the disasters that happen are usually fatal and destructive. This then calls for the need to try as much as possible to prevent these disasters and in particular in our cities. This is due to the fact that in the cities there are large populations that live close to each other or work in offices crammed together hence the likelihood of a disaster turning absolutely fatal if and when it strikes. However, due to the inevitable nature of these disasters, it is upon us to make adequate preparations that can enable us to minimize the effects of the natural disasters as much as possible when and if they happen.

Urbanization is currently having a huge effect on civilization causing appalling living conditions, widespread disease, and a influx in crime; which is shortening peoples lives. This terrible event is being caused by the appearance of Industrialization. With the increase of machine-based job availability in factories that are alongside each other thousands of people are flooding to nearby cities that are not prepared for them. With many unprepared cities doubling or even tripling in population and nothing to keep them in order the cities are covered in dirty, leftover trash and the housing often includes full families in small, damp, bare rooms. These unfitting environments are the reason people are often coming down with illnesses that are easily spread to become epidemics that can effect everyone.

Throughout history, there have been dozens of kinds of civilizations. In said civilizations, there are subsets of districts in which only certain sets of people reside. Between World War I and now, many changes in these areas have occurred that we can observe. Whether it be a strong economy, rapid postwar growth, change in class, or simply new architectural designs for cities, there are several factors that contributed to the rise of what we now know as suburbia.

Urbanization has been constant over the last few hundred years. It continues even today and will continue with the constant increase in world population. Urbanization affects all levels of society and an accommodating urban environment is a necessity. But as humans we haven’t really been good at it. The process of urbanization can vary by country. Within the urban communities the political economy determines the existence of social classes.

Urbanization is growing of cities due to expanded of industries, increased of immigration and population shifted from rural to urban to work in factories. Hirschman and Mogford stated that the decades surrounding 1900 were not only the age of industrialization in the United States, but were also the age of urbanization and immigration. Industrialization, immigration, and urbanization are correlated and interacted with each other. However, all these three have both advantage and disadvantage. Obviously, the three pros of urbanization are convenience, economic improvement, and cultural diversity. First at all, the example of convenience is when people in cities can easily access to health, education and social services due to more availability of facilities and public transportation. Second at all, the example of economic improvement is when there are more job opportunity, foreign exchange, and apartment, houses or codons filled with residents. Lastly, the example of cultural diversity is when

The economic development of a country can be defined as the growth of industry, wealth, employment and the level of urbanisation. The planning and management issues that are linked to economic development, are those associated with processes such as urbanisation, suburbanisation and counter-urbanisation of cities. These may include pollution of water, air and noise. Other issues may be the increase in transport and waste, created by people living, travelling through and working in urban areas. These problems need solutions, which often leads to planning and carrying out redevelopment of

Greenwood shows us cities in the United State are Minnesota, Tennessee, Texas, Detroit, Houston, New York and Los Angeles. These cities are the corners of the United State that part of basis of our economy and also the oil industry. He thinks listing these cities in the song will make people who listen to the song can remember and know about these main cities in America. He also mentions the amazing and special views from each different cities. “From the lake of Minnesota to the hill of Tennessee” Listing the places help the listener has an overview about the city. For example, Minnesota has so many amazing lake such as Mille Lacs Lake, Leech lake, lake Vermillion,... and so on. These are the most beautiful lakes in America that Greenwood just wants to bring the lake to his song for people to admire the beautiful of nature in America. On the other hand, lake is not the only beautiful place in America; there’s also hill of Tennessee and plains of Texas. The hill and plains in Texas are huge, wild and majestic. The nature is not just the quiet and beautiful lakes, there’s also wild hills, giant plains and “shining sea” that highlight the beautifulness of America. Beside the nature, people is the one that make America where it at now. New York and Los Angeles are the most bustling and modern cities in the United State.

In 2002, several years before the peak of the housing boom, George Bush proudly proclaimed that owning a home was the American Dream. Construction workers at the time were all geared up and prepared for the wave of residential living that was about to hit. Simultaneously banks were hesitant when handing out mortgages to new and eager homeowners. Bush’s dream was a vision that involved opportunity and an up and rising trend of homeownership where he truly believed that this would be the case, and so did everybody else. About a decade later, that dream had changed drastically. Americans began abandoning their white-picket fences and two car garages for a downtown city view and a shorter walk to work. The population shift that is taking place

making a city or more populated. Now, in America, it is an urban-city. As the years went

The city is a vital, breathing, and often vibrant life force to its metropolitan area, region, state, and country. Cities, within the United States function typically as the jobs, cultural, and educational centers of their region. They tend to be more diverse than their surrounding communities, and they often face sets of problems that the suburbs and rural areas do not deal with. Some of the main issues that will face and shape cities over the next ten years include gentrification, environmental sustainability, and immigration. The way in which each of these issues is addressed will greatly impact the future of the American city.

Urbanization, which is becoming a buzzword during the last few decades, is enlarging at a booming speed. It is predicted that 93 percents urban growth will occur to the year 2020, in the developing world (Elliot J.A, 1999). Generally speaking, more than half of the people around the world have been moved to cities, which led to a series of “matters” connected with people’s life that changed in a dramatical way. In this period, sustainable development, another buzzword during the past few years, came into people’s view and gradually became the mainstream of society development. Its definition is to make the development continue in a long term, which means allowing appropriate economic growth and industrialization without

The concept of sustainable development has become a major topic among intellectuals from various fields. Sustainable development has gone through various changes in its definitions and at present does not have a commonly accepted definition. The origination of the concept of sustainable development is debatable. In 1974 at a conference on Science and Technology for Human Development by the World Council of Churches the concept of a “sustainable society” is believed to have been first noted. This early concept focused on equitable distribution of scarce resources and the need for democratic decision making. In 1980 the currently used term of sustainable development emerged in the