With reference to examples‚ assess the degree to which the level of economic development of a country affects planning and management in urban areas. (40 Marks) There are many examples of countries around the world which show examples of hashed and perfect planning and management in urban areas. However there are many variables that affect the difference in which the planning is done across the globe. By 2007 the percentage of the world’s population living in cities was 50 percent‚ and rising with
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Urbanization is caused in poor countries by people wanting to move to from a rural area to a city to have running water‚ electricity‚ and jobs. What is bad is that most of the cities that have had urbanization are surrounded by run down areas that have people living in shacks. In Africa‚ one significant feature of the urbanization process is unlike Asia and Europe‚ mainly that much of the growth is taking place in the absence of significant industrial expansion. “In Africa‚ the urbanization processes
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industrialization and urbanization. The United States transitioned from being a rural country to becoming an urban country. Citizens moved from the countryside and crowded cities. Cities like New York City‚ Chicago‚ Cleveland‚ Pittsburgh… gained an influx of citizens and immigrants. From this rapid industrialization and urbanization many positive and negative effects arose affecting the sociological‚ economical‚ and political aspects of American society. A rise of rapid urbanization and industrialization
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10a) Suggest reasons for the changes shown in the size and distribution of megacities Megacities‚ with a population of at least 10 million‚ have grown in number to 26 in 2009. This is because of the general growth in world population and especially the g r o w t h in NICs such as India‚ Brazil and Indonesia. Their Economic growth has increased rapidly due to industrialisation which has encouraged rural-urban migration to escape rural poverty. This has increased the size of some megacities to
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Humans have created urban areas right since the ancient times. Urbanization‚ as we know it now‚ began with the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century‚ and has only been on the rise ever since. Statistics tell us that half of the world’s people already live in urban areas‚ with that number set to expand in the years to come. Our cities have been luring people for various reasons‚ the basic one being the hope of a better life. People are drawn to the cities for the comforts they offer‚ the opportunities
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Overpopulation and Urbanization are two factors that serve as an inpediment on developing nations worldwide. The result of Overpopulation and urbanization drastically affects a region economically and culturally. Overpopulation is an overabundance of people in a region or country that lacks adequate resources that are necessary to sustain life. Many debate whether overpopulation would be incapable of supporting an abrupt increase of people‚ or if it was a form of wealth that will cause another industrial
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Essay on Effects of Urbanization | | |[pic] | | |Urbanization is the process by which a large number of people over time | | |become concentrated in cities. However‚ cities‚ as permanent settlements | | |where heterogeneous groups of people live‚ have existed since time | |
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Urbanization of America The urbanization of the cities in America that occurred during the first fifty years after the civil war was a unique situation that had not been seen before in this country. There had been migration that had occurred before‚ but the staggering numbers that migrated to these cities during this time was overwhelming. According to Brinkley “The urban population increased sevenfold during this time period" (Unfinished Nation‚ p.418). The census report
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The population of the metropolis increases because people from rural areas and overseas migrate to the urban areas in large numbers‚ averaging 7.6 per cent per year (United Nations Population Division‚ 2001). Increasing of population in many big cities may causes serious problems even in advanced countries. Seoul‚ the capital city of South Korea‚ which more than 11 millions of population‚ has grown rapidly into a metropolis since the end of Korean War (Kim‚ 2005). Over population in Seoul creates
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