The Effects of Urbanization

Rapid urbanisation has caused a variety of problems, including transport congestion, lack of sufficient homes and living conditions, sanitary and health care issues, and crime. For all these problems, city planners have attempted potential solutions, each with varying degrees of success. Cities including London, Manila and Mumbai have several of the aforementioned problems, and have each tried their own potential solutions. This essay will discuss how successful these schemes have been in resolving these issues.

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.

Urbanisation is caused by people inhabiting the cities and towns moving away from rural areas. This can be a problem because it causes Overcrowding, waste accumulation, transport systems.

Decades after the Civil War, the United States rose as a modern monster. Old ventures extended and numerous new ones, including petroleum refining, steel fabricating, cotton mills and electrical power. Railways extended altogether, bringing even remote parts of the nation into a national market economy. Although not paid well, people were given jobs due to the expansion of the Revolution. Mechanical development changed American culture. It delivered another class of well off industrialists and a prosperous white collar class. It also created tremendously extended manual common laborers. The work constrain that made industrialization conceivable was comprised of a huge number of recently arrived foreigners and considerably bigger quantities

The period from the late 19th century to the early 20th century is important in the urban development history of Canadian and American. Urbanization is a historical process that contains urban development. Urbanization is a process of population concentration as well as a process that advanced production modes substitute backward modes. At the same time, it is also the process to adapt to the mode of production and to innovate lifestyle. Hence, urbanization is a dynamic process that many aspects of economics, society and culture comprehensively transform caused by the revolution of social productive forces.

Urbanization is a concept that is deeply rooted in the increase in a population within a region in response to the availability of unique opportunities. The opportunities may include the availability of employment chances in factories, investments opportunities in the urban areas, and the presence of sufficient housing and social infrastructure. It is apparent that urbanization began centuries ago in different regions of the world. However, the development of suburban areas has also been an interesting phenomenon over the centuries. Initially, people strived to live in the luxurious houses in major towns and cities. Nevertheless, there was a gradual shift in the desire to live in the cities when various negative impacts of overpopulation

This increase in the quantity and geographical sprawl of cities, as well as our dependence on them characterizes what we commonly know as urbanization. In his article, “Urbanization, Mental Health, and Social Deviancy,” Anthony Marsella provides a more comprehensive definition, claiming that urbanization causes an increase in population which impacts the way individuals in an area interact with one another, resulting in behavior changes among the population such as “differentiation, segmentalization, segregation, and marginalization” (625). Due to the implementation of “city limits,” and due to the link that exists between urbanization and the development of cities, the beginning and end of “urban” areas appears to be well

The problem arises if urbanization is needed for people to have in their life. As people begin to evolve and technology becomes more advanced, the need for space is crucial, and urbanization for people becomes the best alternative for modern life to be stable. Focusing on the benefits only, people become blind from the impact other individuals who are in between urbanization struggle with. The people that are in between the construction of urbanization have no other choice but to accept it and move. Urbanization has become a problem in the life of low-income families, but people have to follow modern life in order to survive emotionally and financially. The benefits from urbanization are high for the economically stable families and those who

Three problems with the rapid growth of cities: increased poverty across the city, poor living conditions, and the birth of the political machine.

Recently, urbanization has become the newest form of progress. However, it seems that urbanization has created some unforeseen problems. Bocquier suggests “economic uncertainties that prevail in most urban settings lead to a deterioration of living conditions…this deterioration particularly affects the urban poor” (pg. 1). As society began to change and progress at such a quick pace, many people have been left behind and have had to adapt to survive to their new environments.

Development: As the population grows there is need for urban development which could be intrusive on the

Throughout the 20th century, mass amounts of people moved from rural to urban areas worldwide for a variety of reasons. This massive influx caused urbanization to occur in cities that were originally smaller in population as compared to global cities (Davis 7). While this may be seemly beneficial, these smaller cities often did not have the infrastructure or the economic opportunities to support, in some cases, over a million people in such a short time. What this lead to was an increase in slums which are occupied by people who cannot afford to buy or rent traditional housing in these smaller cities. As many people were forced to live in these slums because of a lack of economic opportunity, the problems of overcrowding, inadequate access

In his book Whole Earth Discipline, Stewart Brand argues that the effects of urbanization are primarily positive for the environment. First, the birth rate of new urban dwellers falls immediately to replacement rate, and keeps falling, reducing environmental stresses caused by population growth. Secondly, emigration from rural areas reduces destructive subsistence farming techniques, such as improperly implemented slash and burn agriculture.

Urban sprawl or urbanization is an environmental risk that affects people and their farmland. According to the article, “What is Urban Sprawl”, “The end result is the spreading of a city and its suburbs over more and more rural land”. This quote explains that urban sprawl is the spreading of a city over rural land. Spreading over rural land is bad because it ruins crops and animals that once lived there have to go somewhere else. Another example is, “As number of people in a city grows beyond capacity, the local communities continues to spread farther and farther from city centers” (What is Urban Sprawl?) This quote explains how when the population grows, cities start to expand and grow onto farmland. The text states, “Cities will usually

The process of urbanization has been going on since pre-historic times, at least from the fourth millennium BC and perhaps from even earlier. Although until relatively recently the number of people living in urban areas increased slowly and formed only a small percentage of the total population from earliest times urban life brought profound social and economic changes to the areas where it was prevalent.