Urbanization and Urban Growth

What is urbanization? Urbanization is the increase of population in an urban area. It is as much as a social process as it is an economic and territorial process. There are a few major cause of urbanization which include the industrial revolution, immigration, push and pull factor. Industrialization is the increase and development of a society or country that transforms its self s itself from a primarily agricultural society into one based on the industrialized of goods and services. The increasing number of factories created has a powerful need for labor, compelling people in rural areas to move to the city, and drawing immigrants from around the world to come to Canada for employment. As a result, Canada has transformed from a rural to an urban nation, and the demographics of the country shifted dramatically. Subsequent industrial development the process of urban¬ization is accelerating at much more rapidly rate. Urbanization brings about social and cultural changes in community life, which also correspond to modernization. The loss of community life and traditional large-sized joint families on one hand and growing individualism, and smaller sizes of house¬holds and development of independent personalities in a diverse community on the other, are the commonly observed characteristics of urban as well as modern way of

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.

Urbanisation is the process in which people move to the city and start to make a home there. This is mainly happening in LEDC countries due to the lack of work in the countryside. People flood to the cities to try and find employment. Suburbanisation is the way that people

What is urbanization? Which countries are the most urbanized? The least urbanized? What is the urbanization trend today in largely rural nations? Urbanization is a process in which people increasingly move from rural areas to densely populated cities.

Urbanization can be seen from various sociological perspectives such as the functional perspective and the conflict perspective. Functionalist’s view “on urbanizations generally focus on the ecology of the city”. On the other hand, the “conflict perspective tends to focus on political economy”. Human ecology “is a functionalist field of study that looks at on the relationship between people and their built and natural physical environments”. A specific model that displays this is the concentric zone model, it “views a city as a series of concentric circular areas, expanding outward from the center of the city, with various “zones” invading adjacent zones”. In opposition, the conflict perspective consists

Urban sprawl causes the population in urban areas to become larger, however, this comes with a cost. Urban sprawl has countless negative effects on the

City: A city is a sub category of an urban area characterized by its minimal number of 50,000 people or more.

Urbanization is an increasing number of city dwellers compared to people living in rural areas. Urban development in poor nations has resulted in multiple issues such as air pollution and health problems. Urban growth puts an enormous strain on social services. This essay will explain how rapid, uncontrolled urbanization has led to serious consequences in developing countries.

Urbanisation is the phenomenon where the population of cities and town increases. It is because the people move from rural areas to towns and cities expecting good job, and better life. There will be a drastic change in socio economic, and climate change due to urbanisation. When the resource is not efficiently used the population tend to settle in centralised, and compact informal areas of city and town leading to creation of slums. It is often said that formation of slums is not expected with rapid urbanisation; however presence of the slums in most of the developing countries that are rapidly urbanising contradicts this statement.

Urban areas have been growing twice as fast as urban population (Karen C. Seto). Urbanization, however, varies significantly across countries. Some of the major trends witnessed in urban areas include; - spatial growth of urban areas faster than urban population, modification of both local and

Urbanization deals with the number of people in urban places and also refers to the process of people moving to cities or other heavily settled places. The term urbanization also describes changes in social organization that happens as a consequence of heavily populated areas. Urbanization is a process. It is what happens when rural areas are changed into urban areas. According to Louis Wirth, the components of urbanization include size, density, and heterogeneity and these are the independent variables that create a distinct way of life called “urbanism.” (Palen, 2012)

　　Urbanization also lead to natural disasters to some extent. Improper projects may affect an area’s normal development. Think about the earthquake and tsunami in east Japan recently, and the series of scandals about the nuclear power plants after it. Japan is definitely not a suitable place to build nuclear power plants, but they have to build them for their own development. ( Slodkowski, Klamann. 2011) This case clarifies a sense that before a project is conducted, the government should take very careful examination about the target location, in every possible aspect, in order to avoid environmental harm to the target place and local people. Besides this, good emergency system should be prepared to take precautions against natural hazards. Also take Japan earthquake for an example, though their ignorance to its potential safety hazards of nuclear power, they have great emergency response capacity against disasters. Children are specifically educated with how to act if earthquake comes when they’re pupils, and they carry out each quake alarm

Urbanization, meaning the increase in the proportion of the total population living in urban areas, has been a worldwide phenomenon since 1950 (Pacione), particularly due to the rapid economic development after the second world, but such a process has existed for centuries, as early as in the 18th and 19th century when the industrial revolution took place in Europe. Even so, the urbanization processes in First World and Third World are different. This essay will focus on and compare the characteristics of the urbanization process in First World and Third World, from the 16th century till now.

Urbanization and growth go with each other: no country has ever reached a great economy without a significant population shift into cities. According to United Nations databases, the proportion of the 2014 world population living in urban areas was 54 per cent, heading for 66 per cent by 2050. Urbanization is necessary to keep up growth in developing countries, and it yields other benefits as well. But it is not pain-less or always welcomed by policymakers or the general public. Managing urbanization is an important part of nurturing growth; neglecting cities—even in countries in which the level of urbanization is low—can impose heavy costs.

Urbanisation is an integral part of the economic development. The global economic growth, poverty alleviation, environmental sustainability and quality of life are largely determined by the extent of urbanisation. In the past few decades urban areas in the world have experienced inadequate infrastructure, rising population and the social problems like poverty, growth of informal settlement and environmental problems accruing it. These problems in turn poses serious problems to sustainable development in the present and future. Moreover many cities in the world have become the hotspot of vulnerability due to climate change and variability and are susceptible to extreme and recurrent weather events. Most of the urban areas, in recent decades, have been facing extreme weather events and subsequent damages and loss of lives caused due these extreme events. Extreme event in its wake severely affect economic development and poverty alleviation and has the potential to drastically alter the development trajectory of the city and the areas surrounding it. In addition to physical, social and economic vulnerabilities in such cities is the low adaptive capacity with constraints on physical, financial and human resources. Therefore the assessment of vulnerability to extreme and recurrent weather events of the city is an imperative for the vulnerability and exposure determines the extent of adaptation and coping capacity of the communities in the periphory of the cities.