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The Positive And Negative Effects Of Urbanization And Developing Countries

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Urbanization has been occurring for many years. It is the process in which people move from rural to an urban area, allowing cities and towns to grow. It is the process by which an area changes from rural to urban, when one organized around rural activities/lifestyles changes to one organized around urban activities/lifestyles. Urbanization can be debatable as many believe it is negative and harming countries, but some may say it is beneficial. Urbanization can impact any country in the world in numerous ways. The effects urbanization can sometimes be beneficial but sometimes not depending on the type of country. Developing countries often find urbanization to be negative due to the increase of slums and unemployment rates, whereas …show more content…

Whereas the rich own most of the businesses, particularly a reality tv show where money is given to the winning player. Due to urbanization about one billion people live in slums worldwide (World Health Organization, 2010). In addition, urbanization is affecting many lifestyles due to poor health and child mortality. Living in slums is very dangerous seeing that diseases can spread quickly. In Kenya, HIV is twice the national average and diarrhea is affecting child mortality to increase (Johnson, 2013). Moreover, young children are not able to enjoy their age of innocence, Children can not afford education and were expected to work to earn money. Since disease spread quick, children cared for their sick family members. Due to the nonexistent sanitation facilities, traveling to a washroom at night increased the risk of sexual assault especially in girls (Johnson, 2013). Therefore children’s lifestyles were affected, children could not feel safe in their own neighborhoods and feared to be out. It is evident that urbanization affects the lifestyle of the developing world by increasing house prices which increases slums, the spread of diseases and the absence age of innocence for children. For the developed world urbanization is often seen positive and helpful for the economy. Urbanization provides the convenience of goods and services to the citizens of the developed

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