British cities

British towns and cities were overcrowded. Population began increasing due to more people moving in. As businesses began to boom and the national markets grew, more people from the countryside flocked to the towns and the new factories because they wanted jobs. Small towns became large cities and the city of London grew from a population of 2 million in 1840 to 5 million forty years later. This resulted in more people in a country (Great Britain) living in cities than in rural areas like never before

Nigeria is the first city established after breaking free of British rule in Nigeria, websites such as travelsmart.com, constative.com, and nigerianbulletin.com do not list Lagos as the most successful city; however, Lagos is the most successful city because of their population growth, government structure and history. The year 1960 is a year of new beginnings for the newly formed city, Lagos. In 1861, ninety-nine years before Lagos won its independence from Great Britain, the British Lagos Colony is

articles, about urban cities and the changes it has brought to the reshaping of city lives and daily mundane. The essay will talk about the two choosing articles in regards to Urbanisation of London and that of Lagos in Nigeria. The first article is from a journal by Doctor Paulette Clarkson – London as a city of today, the second article is a reading text - from website. Firstly, two cities came to mind; London and Lagos. In first attempt, let’s take London as an urban city going back decades when

settled as a French fur trading post that turned into a military post. It was turned over to the British in 1760 after they lost the French and Indian War. In 1796, the British lost Detroit to U.S. forces. Most of this history was lost when a fire destroyed the city in 1805. The invention of the steamboat and the building of the Erie Canal provided efficient access to Detroit through the Detroit River. The city grew rapidly and was incorporated in 1815, even before Michigan was admitted to the Union. (Detroit

mid-19th century, the English city of Manchester underwent a large change under the influence of the Industrial Revolution. It can be described as a large factory, as it was filled with manufacturing factories and workers. Unfortunately, these workers had to live in inhumane conditions while developing the city of Manchester. In 1750, Manchester was a small city, with no canals, railroads, or any other forms of public works that contributed to the development of large cities. But as time went on, Manchester

The Middle East has been characterized by a long chain of human migration ever since humans made their way into the region. Over the centuries, an area near the center of the Middle East that makes up the modern state of Iraq has experienced this constant flow of individuals from all over the region, many of who came for the fertile regions near the Tigris and Euphrates rivers along the Fertile Crescent. Fast forward to today and little has changed. In the wake of conflict such as the rise of the

by the ongoing urban regeneration and urban developments in many of the major cities in India, especially in city of Pune, and its adverse effects on the city townscapes and place identities. City of Pune has a rich education legacy and has been often referred as the ‘Oxford of the East’, a legacy which came into prominence on the establishment of the University of Pune in the year 1949 (Hindustan Times, 2012). The city truly justified itself as the cultural capital of Maharashtra with its strong

backgrounds. With a diverse and massive amount of people in one city, division between classes is bound to happen, and with that separation, certain social groups become invisible to the public eye. In order to fully understand a city, one has to examine the lives of various social sectors. Literary city narratives depict the lives of several characters and help readers fully comprehend how cities are shaped by its people. Two city narratives, Hearts and Minds and The Lonely Londoners, follow several

many individuals that were living in more rural regions were forced to relocate to cities, and more urban centres. Robert Marks in his passage, The Origins of the Modern World-A Global and Environmental Narrative From The Fifteenth To The Twenty-First Century, explains how during the Industrial Revolution, populations in major urban centres in Britain grew dramatically. He states, “The British manufacturing cities of Leeds, Sheffield, and Birmingham grew 40 percent in a decade.” Urbanization, which

There were cities in India since ancient times which were commonly known for power and trading activities. villages were self- sufficient at that times. So the rate of migration was very low. But due to degradation in village agrarian system, old chains began to break and process of migration to cities started in search of livelihoods. The nature of urbanization process changed with the arrival of the British East India Company. The major contributions of the British to the Indian urban scene were: