Socialization: The Negative Consequences Of Urbanization

Urbanization is the manner by which rural societies develop to cities, or metropolitan places. Moreover, urbanization is the growing and enlargement of those cities. Urbanization was activated in the eighteenth century along with the industrial revolution in hope for a better and more practical lifestyle; however, it has later on caused several struggles, which civilians are now trying to eliminate through representing logical and fruitful solutions.
As developments began to emerge, human evolution entered a very distinctive chapter. Before urbanization and civilization, people lived in small, family-centered groups, crowds that lived no better than animals, ordered by the dynamisms of nature. Thousands of years later, humanity arose to live …show more content…
Urban cities are now being followed by negative consequences of unstructured urbanization. Rising levels of population have dramatically caused huge alarming stages of pollution. Densely populated areas are harming the planet’s environment. Public transports are failing because people are choosing private luxurious cars that add to emission of toxic fumes. More over, huge cities release enormous amounts of waste that are mostly non-biodegradable that lead to unpredictable amounts of garbage that pollutes our soil extremely. Furthermore, the explosion of population in the cities is causing the lack of resources and organization skills. Hence, the rising demand for space is causing the prices of properties to inflate and finally paving the way for the creation of slums where living conditions are catastrophic and basic facilities like clean toilets and needs such as clean and safe drinking water are lacked. Another disadvantage of urbanization is the high cost of living. The growing population makes every service expensive, and at the same time leading to an interval of low-quality substitutes of food products, water and even medical supplies and so the costs of food, transportation, rents and other necessities are continuously on the rise as their demand keeps exceeding its supply. Another major problem is economic inequality in cities. In cities, the rich keep getting richer, and the poor remain the way they are, and on top of that, both standards live right next to each other making way for revolt. Lastly from the inconveniences of cities is the increase in crime rates, where the governing bodies are finding it impossible to manage the metropolitan areas due to it vast dense, hence security majorly