The Impact Of Megacities On The World

Urbanization is inevitable, whether we want it or not. Opposers are constantly bickering about the political and moral consequences of gentrification. This topic is indeed mind boggling and complex. However, there is a need to observe this multi-faceted phenomenon in a different angle. Change is the force of diversity, safety and

Task #1 : Analyse the impacts of at least two urban dynamics operating in a large city of the developed world.

“gentrification has been and still continues to be a critical task when it comes to urban geography of cities, such as New York City and cities around the world as well” (Smith, pg.129).

In his article, “Future Megacity Operations – Lessons from Sadr City” Major Christopher O. Bowers argues that future conflicts will meet the challenges of megacities. The purpose of the article is to show that present lessons from Sadr City can be scaled up and used by U.S. commanders to solve upcoming challenges in a future conflict in a megacity. The article was published in Military Review May-June 2005. Major Bowers served in Sadr City, Iraq, from 2005 to 2006.

Planning and management needs to happen in all countries over the world because no matter how different the level of development between countries the problems will be same in urban areas. These problems that need to be planned and managed in the urban areas of the city are becoming increasingly significant due to the fact that there has been a hug increase in the number of people living in cities worldwide, just over fifty percent of the world are now living in urban areas. The main reason for this is the huge increase in urbanisation which is defined as an increase in the proportion of

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

Since the earliest days of our history, cities have served as the center for economic activity, social diversity, and religious inquiry. As renowned sociologist Joel Kotkin would say, cities are sacred, safe, and busy. When we look at the modern city, we see these concepts in action. Today, cities are defined by mass populations surrounding and creating major centers of commerce and economic activity. This density creates a diverse social climate in which fosters creativity and conversation, which can often times feed into the religious historical significance of cities. This density brings along with it a whole host of issues and various challenges that must be faced by the community in which they involve. One such issue is the idea of socio- economical inequality that comes as a result of dense populations sharing the same resources within a certain area. Within any community there are limited resources, and one such resource within a city is that of land and property availability. Gentrification, or the process in which developers purchase cheap properties to turn them over into more expensive and desirable assets, is a common practice in modern cities in the effort to reclaim some of this precious resource. In looking at the city of Chicago in the United States as well as the city of Lisbon in Portugal, I will

With the advent of globalization and industrialization, urban migration and expansion of cities have become a global trend. South American nations are amongst being most rapid urbanized countries. As more people migrate to urban areas in search of better work opportunities, the cities here are growing in size and number (Ferguson & Navarrete, 2003). This problem is native to not just Latin American countries but is a major concern for most of the developing world. As estimated by the UN (United Nations, 2016), 3 billion people or about 40% of the world population would be living in substandard housing as a result of urban expansions and population growth. This is perceived to be a direct impact of rapid urbanization and excessive strain on

It is estimated that over 50% of the world’s population now lives in urban areas and that this will rise to 70% by 2050. Such a change will

You would be surprised at the number of cities all over the world that experience gentrification, albeit gentrification follows the trend of taking place in urban areas. “Until about 2005, most planners and urban theorists regarded gentrification as a local issue. It was first described by Ruth Glass as a neighborhood-scale process of urban transformation. However, as whole cities and whole counties have become gentrified, the scale of the phenomenon now challenges the original concept (“Gentrification: now global! | UrbanPolicy.net”, 2018).” We can see examples of gentrification happening in places all over the globe, for example in places, Sydney, Vancouver, Amsterdam, and Johannesburg just to name a few. Yet as gentrification happens across the globe one thing remains the same there always seems to be an underlying political-economic-social cause of the change. One can begin to recognize this as a stark and undeniable truth when you begin to compare and contract cities miles apart or across the entire globe from each other. Places that you would never even think of being in the juxtaposition of one another. While there is no denying that gentrification has many fruitful gains the questions is who reaps the rewards is it just a select few or does the vast majority benefit? Another concern worth bringing up is the issue of sustainability. How does a

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.

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.

Over the past thirty years, many cities throughout America have grown from dismal places into thriving, prosperous, and growing entities. In particular, Boston, Chicago, and New York have become cities where swarms of affluent individuals—both young and old—want to live and work, instead of suburbia. While these cities had previous ingredients for success, their commitment to education, immigration, business, development, public transportation, and quality of life all spurred their growth and population influx. In order for the hypothetical city of Metropolis to flourish over the next 20 years into a thriving entity like these cities, it must positively grow its human

Asian cities have been tended to grow more quickly than Western cities, so what makes their growth so phenomenal? The accelerated rate may be attributed to population dynamics, economic markets and or/socio-political conditions, poor planning and disregarding environmental hazards like flood plains have held them back. Many primate cities in Asia have grown to become megacities, and some more are rapidly increasing in size to assume such a status by the end of the century. This is a remarkable phenomenon fraught with various implications, favorable or unfavorable. In 1960 there were only two megacities in the region, which were, Tokyo and Shanghai. In 1970 Beijing was added, and Asia had three of 10 megacities in the world, or two of five

In Planet of the Slums Mike Davis creates an expansive and more dynamic understanding of the term slum as well as the relationship they have with the concept of urbanization as well as the usage of religion and religiously affiliated organizations to act as a form of activism within the slums. Davis begins by noting that the ways in which the twenty-first century has created an irreversible change to the urban-rural migration patterns, causing the urban population has to rival the rural population in the future. Additionally, he notes forms of urban and peri-urban settlements that exist. These include megacities (between 8 million and 20 million) and hypercities (over 20 million) as well as what he terms “…neither urban nor rural but a blending