Chicago metropolitan area

discussed in this class affected your thoughts about alternative directions in your personal life and the type of environment you would prefer to live? Although suburban and rural areas offers a completely different experience not found in urbanized areas. My personal preference would be to settle down in an urban city area. The city provides a diversity of different individuals. Additionally, urban communities contain most of the necessities needed, which creates for an easier, enjoyable…

the bright lights of Jakarta or a farmer will move his impoverished family into one of Lima’s innumerable pueblos jóvenes” (1). The quotation proves that people will be moving from rural areas to megacities without anyone telling them to do it. Megacities can be described as a larger geographic metropolitan area with a greater population. People were moving from rural villages to megacities because it was their choice to do so, they thought that their current situation was worse than that of the…

of raising population growth in cities and rural, it also includes the rise of industrialization. The government, industry and business deal in urban areas are involved.The United States and Europe had started their urbanization since the 19th century. On the other hand, by the end of 2014, 54.7% of China’s total population live in the urban areas, which is a rate that rose from 26% in 1990. They are currently experiencing a rapid increase. Yet, urbanization has many benefits. For instance,…

urbanization. Generally people from rural areas will move to urban areas for different reasons, but mostly for the opportunities that come with urban areas. These can be employment opportunities that are not otherwise available in rural areas or better paying employment. Although one problem may be that even urban areas may not be equipped to sustain all the people that move in from the rural areas and this will leave many people living in poverty. Meaning that metro areas may not be ready…

Nowadays it is difficult to live in big cities without using the transport. It is well-known fact that in metropolises the transportation system is developed well. In almost every big city there are a buses, metro, taxes and great number of personal cars. The fast enlargement of citizens leads to increasing number of cars. Thus, statistic, provided The World Bank, says that the number of motor vehicles per 1000 people in 2011 in the USA was 786, whereas the year earlier it was 782. In…

Urban sprawl caused the increase of physical and environmental footprints of many cities all over the world, some of them having a significant increase in a very short time. This, however, leads to the decrease and destruction of natural wildlife habitats and farmland. The trend of urban sprawl first started in the US after the end of world war II. The increase in manufacturing output and new federal programs in America had made it possible for many people to buy new houses and cars. The…

faced prosecution or might be killed if they return to their home country. Within sanctuary cities, immigrants are allowed to come in and work the jobs Americans may not prefer to work. They are also free from the threat of being deported back to an area that they are fearful of just because they are an immigrant. The idea of sanctuary cities is not new. The idea…

The last century has seen the rapid growth of the urban areas which is likely to be one of the milestones in the current ages. Also known as the urbanization process, this situation is defined by the unprecedented rural population shift to the cities which stems from the Modern period as a result of the Industrial Revolution. However, the key aspect is the universal nature of the issue which has effect on an exceptional transformation in a global scale but on a drastically impact in the social,…

Mia Knudsen, 10.i What is urbanisation? Urbanisation is the process of increase of population in urban areas. As a country develops urbanisation increases due to people being attracted to the benefits of living in an urban area. These benefits include job opportunities, better standards of living, better healthcare, and better schools. 90% of the UKs population is currently living in urban areas like towns or cities. (BBC Bitesize, 2014) Along with the benefits, urbanisation has several…

have doubled or tippled in terms of population and land use. As a result, many villages, abaadi area and settlement are situated in periphery of City and Town are engulfed, and named as Urban Villages and Urban Villages Ext. Similarly, Lal Dora area within the city is also comes under urban villages. Primary factors for urbanization is to get employment and better living condition as compare to rural area. If we compare last fifty years population growth of Delhi, Urban village are accommodating…