Causes and Effects of Uncontrolled Urbanization If you are an urban dweller‚ you may know the real meaning of urbanization. However‚ this does not always indicate your sufficient insight in the “uncontrolled urbanization” topic too. To form a causal chain‚ it is right to say that more jobs‚ more services in the urban side and absence of land in the countryside force people to migrate to larger cities which brings about uncontrolled urbanization. As a result‚ some problems arise such as
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MODERNITY AND ITS REPRESENTATION IN RURAL SOCIOLOGY LUTGARDA L. TOLENTINO Philippines being a third world country strive for development and hunger for progress. Since the discussion in the article is not quite familiar to me‚ I just focus on its content based on what I understood. It says that we need to handle modernization properly to have a so-called progressive country. Well‚ Is modernization totally answers the problem in our society? There are many programs that our government established
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Sociology 240- Ethnography Assignment 2 1 October 10‚ 2012 5:00pm- 5:40 pm New York Public Transit A train This paper will serve to report my observation on the New York City public transportation letter A train line. I see that a lot of people have headphones in their ears‚ reading magazines‚ reading books‚ newspapers and on their phones. The guy sitting next to me to my right is reading‚ had headphones in his ears and is casually dressed. There is a guy with a red sweater who is standing
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residents. This is not the whole story‚ however. There are also many positive effects of urbanisation: improving housing conditions‚ better amenities and services‚ and higher living standards. Yet these benefits are often ignored in the literature on urban environmental issues in developing countries. As argued in this chapter‚ the selective impact that one can observe there depends to a large degree on the type of settlement‚ the socio-economic position of the population‚ and people’s occupations. This
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29 Palms Land: The new opportunities zone We see today that urban life has covered all possible spaces within the habitable territories. It has been a great advantage that large cities have been established‚ providing shelter and development opportunities for a good part of population (infrastructure‚ business‚ commerce‚ education‚ healthness‚ a wide range of leisures)‚ and facilities for good performance of daily activities‚ such as public services (water‚ sewers‚ electricity‚ gas‚ telephony and
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urbanization is based on the fact that urban areas tend to have a higher concentration of jobs for the more skilled laborers and professionals. Since most rural areas usually lack many employment opportunities‚ the people that make up rural populations migrate to urban areas in search of better opportunities; now developing countries go away from economies based mainly on agriculture. As more people move from farms and villages‚ urban growth occurs. Urban trend growths appear to be the same for
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following the initiation of the reform and opening policy. By the end of 2012‚ the mainland of the People’s Republic of China had a total urban population of 712 million or 52.6% of the total population‚ rising from 26% in 1990.[1] In the long term‚ China faces increasing urbanization; according to predictions‚ nearly 70% of the population will live in urban areas by 2035.[2][citation needed] Over the next two decades China will build 20‚000 to 50‚000 new skyscrapers and more than 170 cities will
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new pre-industrial areas. People that used to lived on farming and cattle raising moved to those urbans areas because they were considered profitable places. Urban people began trading with entrepeneurs and merchants who came from the New World and East Indies and who invested in voyages of exploration to Turkey‚ Russia and Africa. Merchants were ambitious about trading new luxurious goods and urban people longed for new ways of increasing their profits. The trading activity resulted in many people
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The radical transformation that San Francisco underwent in the 1990s was the result of rapid gentrification. At one point in time gentrification was equated to “urban rebirth” or “urban pioneers that pushed for “moving back into the city” (Lees 2000). Nowadays gentrification is more closely related to destructive synonyms such as “urban guerrillas” and “class warfare”. This may be due to the fact that that actual process of gentrification causes a sharp distinction between the poor and working class
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dfjcbvudfyudtyudgsgftdygfdhsummary: This paper examines the determinants of family planning service use and the barriers in accessing family planning services among urban poor women in Pakistan. Data were collected from a household survey of 5338 married women of reproductive age (15-45) from slum areas of six cities. The use of family planning services by women in urban slums is strongly linked to individual and household socioeconomic factors. In particular‚ women were ten times more likely to have used a family
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