What are the Benefits and Problems Associated with Urbanisation? In the years following the Industrial Revolution, the practice of urbanisation became much more prevalent. Urbanisation has lead to an increase in the population of cities while leading to a decline in rural population. The effects of Urbanisation can be both positive and negative, whether it is on the peoples, the society or the environment. The practice of urbanisation has brought with it, many arguments as to whether it is a positive
MIGRATION. ONE IS EXTERNAL MIGRATION AND OTHER IS INTERNAL MIGRATION. MIGRATION OF PEOPLE FROM RURAL AREA TO URBAN AREA IS INTERNAL MIGRATION. AS A RESEARCHER WE HAVE TRIED TO EVALUATE CAUSES AND IMPACT OF RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION FROM SWABI TO PESHAWAR. THE RESEARCH IS CONDUCTED UNDER THE FOLLOWING OBJECTIVES: (I) TO KNOW ABOUT VARIOUS SOCIO-ECONOMIC CAUSES OF RURAL-URBAN MIGRATION. (II) TO HIGHLIGHT POLITICAL REASONS AND (III) TO FIND OUT ITS PSYCHOLOGICAL IMPACT. FOR DATA COLLECTION 40 RESPONDENTS WERE
Urbanization brings about a social change. This is most prominent in the expansion of entrepreneurship and industrialization. It is known that the progress of the landless laborer and the absorption of wealth into a few hands promote urbanization. A lot of people say that urbanization is the predictable outcome of economic growth, with the increase of expert craftsmen, merchants, and proprietors. Urban growth or urbanization brings an attraction for the people residing in rural areas. They get attracted by
LINKAGES OF PERI-URBAN COMMUNITY TO LAGOS MEGACITY: CASE STUDY OF MOWE-IBAFO Names ALABINTEI JOSHUA Matric Number 110503017 Department URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING Faculty ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Institution UNIVERSITY OF LAGOS,AKOKA. Supervisor H.O JIMOH PROJECT, 2015 1.1 INTRODUCTION Peri-urban is a term often used in literature texts concerning town planning and urban growth, yet there is a need to properly define the term and
2. LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Basic concepts on urbanization and urban growth Urbanization and urban growth are two different concepts often found in the literature of urban studies. The distinction should be noted that urbanization refers to proportion of the national population living in the urban areas, and urban growth refers to an increase in urban population size, independent of rural population (Haregewoin, 2005). In contrast, urbanization can be viewed and perceived to mean a lot of things
they moved out of the city back into rural areas because they could afford the rural lifestyle. This is called counter urbanisation, it is shown in figure 4, London has had a decrease in their urban population ever since 1950 and it has kept slowly decreasing, and it is a good example of counter urbanisation. This is also another reason as to why urbanisation is increasing slowly in MEDC’s, people moving into LEDC’s are urbanising to get out of poverty in rural areas so it has increased faster in
select few? The urban population has grown rapidly since 1950 form 746 million to 3.9 billion people as of 2014. Many of these number exist in North America with 82% of the population living in cities, Europe with 73%, and Latin America with 80%. Asia and Africa on the other hand are far behind having only 40 – 48% of population living in urban areas. It is said by the World Bank that “Africa is witnessing an unprecedented projected population growth of more than 40,000 new urban inhabitants per
their role in urban change. Property developers who buy a piece of land and build offices or housings and then sell to the public to gain profit. Urban change is the impact of urbanization. Urbanization means the percentage increase in the urban population. When the urban population increase much more than that of rural areas, urbanization occurrs. In general, urban change is the change in all
farming are affected adversely. Growth in population causes hunger in that there is the minimal production of food while the people depending on it are many. Urbanization as well is likely to lead to world hunger because the rate of farming that helps produce food in the rural areas are affected as people relocate to the cities. They require labor in the farms becomes affected which as well affects production. Additionally, when people move to the urban areas, they cause instability in the cities
for investigating the problem of suicide and its causes. There are observed Western patterns of urban, male, and mentally ill populations being at greater risk for suicide—trends that are challenged by the reversed patterns of suicide in China, where “youth, female gender, and rural residence are a potentially lethal