Urbanization And Population Growth : Prosperous Or Miserable?

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

The process of urbanization in the United States “proceeded rapidly during the Industrial Era”. More so, “as more and more opportunities for work appeared in factories, workers left farms to move to the cities”. Evidently, this led “the industrial era [to see] an influx of poor workers into U.S. cities”. Likewise, “post-Civil War southern Blacks to more recent immigrants, have made their way to urban centers to seek a better life in the city”. The growth of urban populations worldwide “was a growth spurt”. This is due to the fact of “the development of factories [that] brought people from rural to urban areas, and new technology increased the efficiency of transportation, food production, and food preservation”. Furthermore, “global favorites

Urbanization has been constant over the last few hundred years. It continues even today and will continue with the constant increase in world population. Urbanization affects all levels of society and an accommodating urban environment is a necessity. But as humans we haven’t really been good at it. The process of urbanization can vary by country. Within the urban communities the political economy determines the existence of social classes.

According to the data from United Nations urbanization prospects 2014, in the early 20th century the urbanized population only accounted 15 percent of the world’s total population. Half century later the pace of urbanization rate accelerated and the figure reached 30 percent in 1950. After nearly 60 years of development, in year 2008 it was the first time that urban population outstripped rural population. Now in 2014 there has been 54 percent of world’s population become urban dwellers. However due to historical geographical and economic reasons, the level of urbanization varies significantly across regions. Highly urbanized regions include Northern America and Caribbean and Latin America with over 80 percent of their total population urbanized.

Urbanization is growing of cities due to expanded of industries, increased of immigration and population shifted from rural to urban to work in factories. Hirschman and Mogford stated that the decades surrounding 1900 were not only the age of industrialization in the United States, but were also the age of urbanization and immigration. Industrialization, immigration, and urbanization are correlated and interacted with each other. However, all these three have both advantage and disadvantage. Obviously, the three pros of urbanization are convenience, economic improvement, and cultural diversity. First at all, the example of convenience is when people in cities can easily access to health, education and social services due to more availability of facilities and public transportation. Second at all, the example of economic improvement is when there are more job opportunity, foreign exchange, and apartment, houses or codons filled with residents. Lastly, the example of cultural diversity is when

Asia will continue to experience population growth; however, countries, such as India and China will begin to stabilize since their populations have exceeded 1 billion people already. Africa's population will continue to grow drastically, and will eventually make up approximately half of the growth in world population by 2050. Once 2050 is reached, Europe's population is projected to contain 34% of people that will age at 60 or over, compared to 25% in Asia, the Caribbean, and South America, respectfully. The ageing population has been growing in the developed world because of technological advances in medicine for health care, and the life expectancy continues to lengthen. Whereas, the developing world is in a time period of industrialization, which is beneficial if the younger populations are capable of finding jobs essentially marketable, which usually means farming for majority of developing

In the eighteenth and nineteenth century urban populations grew rapidly through migration from rural areas to find new jobs in the cities created by the industrial revolution, which led to 6,5 million inhabitants in London. In the twentieth century cities kept growing and in the 1950’s around thirty percent of world’s population was urban. The first mega city in the world emerged, as New York City broke the boundary of ten million inhabitants around 1930 (Wendell Cox Consultancy, 2005). In 1990 there were ten megacities that were home to 153 million people which is less than seven percent of the global urban population. In 2014 the amount of megacities has almost tripled to 28 with a population of 453 million people, which account for twelve percent of the global urban population. The total urban population in 2014 was 54 percent (UN, 2014). These numbers can be related to the second important event,

At first glance, it can seem completely positive that so many cities are growing rapidly. Perhaps if other cities could match the population of metropolises like Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Osaka or London then perhaps they could mimic their economic success. However, upon further review, there is no correlation between population and gross-domestic-product (GDP). Of the top ten cities in population, only four are also top ten cities in terms of GDP. In fact, rounding out the top ten cities by GDP are the cities San Fransisco and Boston - which are only ranked 35th and 48th in terms of the population respectively. (chart on page 13).

Urbanisation is the process which has led to an increasing proportion of a country's population living within urban areas. It is impossible to say exactly when the process began, but in Britain it was around the time of the industrial revolution. Many people moved from rural to urban areas in search of regular employment. The MEDC's around the world are all urbanised now, with annual growth rates of urbanisation still increasing, but sustainably. LEDC's however are still rapidly urbanising. In this essay I am going to look at all the factors that cause urbanisation and evaluate why it is occurring.

(Institue, 2005) Shortly after that, the percentage of urban population gradually began to reverse. The demographic reversal is partly due to a lowered life expectancy that was caused when the state-sponsored health care system collapsed along with the Soviet Union. Another urbanization pattern shows that the majority of Russia’s industrialized cities with large populations are located in the western, European part of the country. Today, roughly 78% of Russia’s people now live in cities. (Kwintessential Cross Cultural Solutions, 2008)

The world’s population has been increasing over time due to advanced sciences which extend lifetimes and decreasing in death rate. In parts of the world many

Firstly, classical and modern theory support the decremental in mortality is resulted by the reduction of infectious disease. Secondly, classical and modern demographic transition have similar sequences and stages. It begin from the first stage which is characterized by the high rate of fertility and mortality and ends with the low rate of fertility and mortality rate. Still in classical, it also has several opinions regarding its connection between human and economic development. Initially, both views acknowledge on the importance of human and economic development attainment. Besides, classical and contemporary demographers consider that urbanisation as an influential role in demographic transition

Since China is a developing country with a large population, the scale of urbanization is expanding, and urban structure becomes increasingly complex and the speed of urbanization is accelerating (Huang & Duan, 2004) since China’s reform and opening up. Rapid urbanization is the main driving force of urban land growth (Li et al, 2015). Moreover, now and in the next few decades, the spatial expansion of construction land is becoming the main feature of land-use changing (Yi, 2015). The study of the spatial-temporal characteristics of construction land expansion will further deepen understanding the nature of the urbanization (Lin, 2007).

The human population is continuing to increase, along with the rate of urbanization. Increasing urbanization is ultimately unavoidable, which is potentially a major threat to the biodiversity of the planet. Animals either must learn to adapt to a new environment, or they risk going extinct. Squirrels are a good example of a species trying to adapt to new environments and can be used to see the effects urbanization has on animals. Using a computer simulation model, squirrels living in rural environments with natural predators can be compared to squirrels living in urban environments, with humans as predators. Simulation results show that although natural predators of squirrels are very low in urban environments, the population is still negatively affected by their interactions with humans and human construction. This simulation provides insight on the effects of urbanization on the survival of squirrels

Countries with rapidly declining birth and death rates, with fertility declining more rapidly than mortality, resulting in a declining growth rate (Northern[->16] and Western Europe[->17], North America[->18] and Australasia[->19])