Urbanization

Urbanization
In the last decade, more and more people decide to live in urban areas as a result rural areas became isolated and neglected. But have we ever thought what are the reasons which prevent people from living in the province?
Firstly and more significantly, not only does the city provide various facilities but it also offers a better quality of life. More specifically, urban areas provide you with facilities such as schools, hospitals, gyms, parks, museums which facilitate your life and make you feel active as you are able to do whatever you want easily and quickly.
On the whole, in a town people have the chance to occupy with new activities which can be beneficial for their health.
Not to mention the fact that there are a lot of places of entertainment in which your leisure time can be always utilized. Of course, owing to the means of transportation, you have access very easily and quickly without paying anything.
Opponents of facilities provided in urban areas, argue that the increasing number of job positions in comparison with these from rural ones, is the most crucial factor which makes people prefer living in cities. In this way, each individual can ensure an income to be able to conserve their family and, generally, live financially independent.
Needless to say, rapid urbanization causes a variety of problems. Thus, this raises the question of whether the benefits of living in town outweigh their drawbacks. In the first place, the greatest disadvantage is the traffic congestion being increased at the center of the town. Not only does this phenomenon provoke a lot of noise, but it also causes vehicle emissions on the roads.
Seeing that more cars in circulation provoke more car accidents, it is widely believed that the city is becoming a worse place to live. Furthermore, urbanization causes a high level of unemployment and this has the increasing poverty as a consequence.
Therefore, individuals need to be more aware of the consequences of their actions and should act more responsibly. As regards the steps that need to be taken to remedy this impoverishment, the first priority for the government should be to increase competition. To put it in another way, government should team up with companies introducing some innovations in order to encourage employment. In this way, poverty would be efficiently decreased.
As for the environmental consequences, we must take into account that the more petrol our society burns, the worst the air quality will be. Obviously, it is high time individuals started to use public transportation whenever it is possible.
All things considered, contrary to popular belief, I feel that it is about time we acted! In order to help urban areas develop sustainably, people should contribute their personal effort. What slould be done is the immediate realization of people’s personal responsibility to the urban areas with the introduction of government’s legislation. In this way, urbanization will may seem better and better.

Smaragdi Loizou