Nowadays, about half of the nation’s population in the world lives in urban areas. Even now, more and more people are moving into the cities for urban life. According to the Census Bureau data, in 2013, there are 2.3 million more people living in urban areas than in 2012. Now 269.9 million people live in urban cities and their surrounding areas. During 2012 and 2013, just 92 out of the country 's 381 metropolitan areas lost their population. (https://www.census.gov/geo/reference/ua/urban-rural-2013.html). Since 2010, the movement in population to America’s urban areas has been increasing because the economic recovery started going up again. Why do many young people wish to live in urban areas, not in the countryside? Living in a large metro
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In recent decades, environmental and health issues have received considerable research attention within sustainable urban transportation literature (Boschmann). The social measurements of maintainable urban transportation are suggested inside of the transportation literature, especially through the components of social value, social exclusion, and personal satisfaction. The literature does suggest that in the context of advanced capitalist cities, socially sustainable urban transportation creates equitable access to opportunities necessary for enabling individuals to achieve sustaining livelihoods, establishes livable cities of social cohesion and inclusion, and overcomes the problems of polarized, fragmented, and socially segregated metropolitan communities (Boschmann). Consequentially, the developed transportation system in urban areas leads the society to better …show more content…
However, being realistic, the countryside lacks many things for modern people such as a public transportation system, entertainments, many useful facilities, and high quality working condition as we can see from the data of the article. Unfortunately, many young adults who stay in the countryside work in a poor environment because there are limited jobs for their future. The data showed why people must have to live in urban areas, because urban areas have a lot of advantages: close to various facilities and convenient public transportation system, and most important advantage is many opportunities to get stable jobs with better working conditions. These advantages could help that young adults can enhance their lives in urban
In recent decades, environmental and health issues have received considerable research attention within sustainable urban transportation literature (Boschmann). The social measurements of maintainable urban transportation are suggested inside of the transportation literature, especially through the components of social value, social exclusion, and personal satisfaction. The literature does suggest that in the context of advanced capitalist cities, socially sustainable urban transportation creates equitable access to opportunities necessary for enabling individuals to achieve sustaining livelihoods, establishes livable cities of social cohesion and inclusion, and overcomes the problems of polarized, fragmented, and socially segregated metropolitan communities (Boschmann). Consequentially, the developed transportation system in urban areas leads the society to better …show more content…
However, being realistic, the countryside lacks many things for modern people such as a public transportation system, entertainments, many useful facilities, and high quality working condition as we can see from the data of the article. Unfortunately, many young adults who stay in the countryside work in a poor environment because there are limited jobs for their future. The data showed why people must have to live in urban areas, because urban areas have a lot of advantages: close to various facilities and convenient public transportation system, and most important advantage is many opportunities to get stable jobs with better working conditions. These advantages could help that young adults can enhance their lives in urban