Research Paper On Megacity

From 1890 to 1920, cities in the United States experienced a rapid growth that was unprecedented in years previous. This growth was caused by a number of factors and resulted in both positive and negative consequences. Such factors included, industrialization, technological advances, migration and immigration. Although American cities greatly improved by the expeditious urbanization, these factors also developed numerous challenges including pollution, sanitation problems, a need for environmental reform, political corruption, overcrowding, high crime rates and segregation.

Brazil with a population around 201,032,714, is the largest South America’s country. Brazil’s most important components of its GDP are service revenues, wide industry sector and its successful agriculture.

The Federative Republic of Brazil is the fifth largest country by geographical area in South America. Currently, “Brazil has a population of over 207 million making it the 5th largest country in the world”(IBGE, 2017). Brasilia is the capital, and Sao Paulo is the largest city in Brazil with population over 11 million people.

1. A metropolitan area is a core urban area of 50,000 or more people together with nearby counties that have mainly urban populations with close ties to core urban area as measured by traveling patterns. Its less-occupied surrounding regions, distribution business, organization, and housing.

The NSW Government says Sydney is on the brink of its biggest-ever housing construction boom, which will see almost 200,000 homes built over the next five years. The houses built will be mainly apartments and townhouses. Planning Minister Rob Stokes believes the majority of these properties will be apartments and townhouses, and described the blueprint as a win in the "war against sprawl".

In a recent article that I read, the issue of Urban sprawl was brought to bare. The article argued that urban sprawl is the reason for many ecological issues, and I tend to agree. This issue is very controversial as it makes economic improvement and accordingly framework advancement conceivably a negative thing, and therefore numerous organizations are attempting to claim that Urban sprawl is not an issue. Along these lines, I have investigated this topic further to investigate whether urban sprawl is undoubtedly as terrible as the original article states.

The concepts of geography, government and economics affect the quality of life in Brazil because of the positive and negative change throughout the country. Brazil is one of the largest countries is the world with a population over 208 million. Their quality of life has grown immensely as it once was covered in rainforest and grasslands. However, it is still mostly covered with the Amazon Rainforest but their are also many cities where most people live and work. Two of the largest cities in Brazil are São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. Farm lands are nearly extinct do to the tropical climate throughout the country, which can make it extremely difficult for people to plant anything outside of just grains. Most Brazilians live a decent life, however

Internal migration shaped and influenced São Paulo because many migrants mostly came from the countryside in response to the city’s accelerated industrialization in the 1950s and 1960s, when companies had an intense need for manual labor (Fontes 20). Migrants came from the Northeast, the intermediate state of Minas Gerais, and from the interior of the state of São Paulo. Migrants also came for other various reasons. For example, many wanted to seek better pay, enjoy, and have working rights, escape the domination and exploitation of the countryside, and seek better education and health care opportunities, and escape occasional drought in the north of Brazil (Fontes 21). These factors served as an inspiration for many to find and leave their old towns behind in search of a better life. The industrial city of São Paulo transformed itself into a home and a workplace for millions of migrants. These obstacles and issues of misery and periodically drought became the grand symbol of internal migration in Brazil (Fontes 17). Thus, this internal migration to São Paulo was an important factor that led to the establishment and formation of working-class

In this ted talk by Parag Khanna, How Megacities are changing the map of the world. The main theme of the talk is about how global networking civilizations in which the cities are now been compete more than the borders. This means that we are now moving into the a world where technologies has taken place in most of our cities, for example the way the infrastructural development and hyper-connected cities are rising to the top more than the state(page 12.10) due to the rapid growing of the people moving to the cities.

Sao Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, a major country in South America and also the seventh largest metropolitan area in the world. Sao Paulo, often referred to as 'Sampa' is the biggest financial hub in the nation and is home to several foreign corporations and the second largest stock exchange in the Americas. This busy city with lots of skyscrapers is a main tourist destination in Brazil and is well known for museums, shopping, gastronomy, architecture, Sao Paulo Fashion Week and nightlife.

The state of São Paulo can be found in this region, which is the nation’s main economic and demographic income. Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro are also large contributors. Rio de Janeiro was the national capital from 1763 to 1960, but remains Brazil’s main cultural and tourist attraction (The World Factbook). The South, is the smallest of Brazil’s regions. The Central-West consists of Brasília, the national capital. This region covers roughly one-fourth of Brazil, including forested valleys, semiarid highlands, and vast wetlands (Encyclopedia Britannica). Due to its size in mass and population there is an abundant amount poverty and income inequality within the country that is at the heart of the country’s lack of economic growth.

Rio de Janeiro has undergone rapid urban growth over the past 40 years. With around 6 million people living in the city itself, Rio today still ranks as one of the world’s largest cities. Most of the migration began in the 1920s as industrialisation attracted new migrant populations. Industries moved to suburbs and workers had to follow. By the 1950s suburbs were so crowded that the only areas still to be occupied were those which were environmentally at risk.

A megacity is a relatively new term that stands to be defined. A megacity is more elaborate than an average city in my areas of interest. It exceeds the characteristics of an average city in population, infrastructure, culture, and poverty. Although megacities may look rather attractive to an individual that resides in a rural area, megacities come with their own set of advantages and disadvantages. They may seem like modern day utopias yet they also have their flaws. Even so, megacities have dominated this planet and we can surely predict the growth of more megacities to come.

NYC has some of the best architecture in the world and there are so many different examples of this. There are many styles of architecture but some of the most popular styles are art deco, gothic, and beaux arts. Each of the styles have different materials and designs that make them unique and cool. Every building in NYC is used by someone for something. Some examples are office space, residential space, and worship spaces.

Stretching over 2,500 miles form east to west and 2,700 miles from north to south, Brazil is the world’s largest tropical country. The only nations that are larger are the lands of Russia, Canada, China and the United States. Brazil has more then 150 million people spread unevenly over its huge land area, making it the fifth most populated country in the world. (Encyclopedia.com) More then two thirds of Brazil’s people live in the cities and towns and more then 29 percent of them are in the ten cities with more then a million people. These include the metropolitan area of Sao Paulo with more then 15 million people and Rio de Janeiro with more then 9 million people. The rural population is mostly concentrated on the East Coast or