Area 51

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…

The Impact of Gentrification in Major Urban Cities In Fortress Los Angeles Mike Davis discusses how corporations redevelopment of major urban cities has led to gentrification. Davis refers to the term gentrification as, "Extraordinary precautions … taken to ensure the physical separation of the different classes" (509). Gentrification zones through the city have widened the gap between the the socioeconomic classes that exist in society, resulting in a displacement of a large number of…

Decades ago and even nowadays, urbanization was and still remains a trend which has influenced people worldwide. “Urbanization occurs when people move from rural to urban areas, so that the proportion of people living in cities increases while the proportion of people living in rural areas diminishes” (Boundless, par.1). Lately, the world is experiencing the largest wave of urban growth in history, and more than half of the world’s population nowadays is living in towns and cities. It is…

Gendered Response to Urban Poverty and Inequality A Case Study of SDI 1. Introduction Urbanisation has accelerated in the global scale, especially in the Global South, with the urban population growing rapidly due to both natural growth and rural-urban migration. The living condition and lifestyles of people are changing along with different situations in transport, housing, employment and infrastructures. However, in the process of urbanisation, people of different genders, religions and…

Ever pondered what it would be like to go from an urban lifestyle to a rural one? Living in an urban area is living in or near a larger city, where a rural area is way out and is most of the time depicted as farm country. Both lifestyles are vital to our world, and both of them contribute equally to society, but the urban life is more enjoyable and considered more of the ‘American Dream’. In the urban lifestyle, there are many activities and hobbies people can participate in. There is an…

Societies around the globe are experiencing an overwhelming wave of urban growth; it is this urbanization that allows for the modern world to undergo such an extensive demographic transition as cities become the core of our future. In his best-selling novel, Planet of Slums, Mike Davis highlights one key obstacle of urban success: the uprise of the informal working class, more commonly known as the slums. Firstly, Davis analyzes how slums have caused four main macroscale shifts between societies…

Urbanisation is the process by which an increasing proportion of a national population lives in towns and cities (the ratio is an indicator to compute the level of urbanisation). In other words, more people migrate from rural to urban areas. The First World, by definition, is the capitalist industrial market economies involving counties like United States, France and the United Kingdom. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the First World was so-called ‘developed countries’ as a synonym. The…

slow growth in recent times. Nagoya a city in Japan grew about 6 percent in recent years, and Tokyo has only seen a 7 percent growth in recent years. The UN stated in a report last year that 54% of the worlds population now live in different urban areas, and this number is expected to have a proportional increase to 66% by 2050. This evidence is profound in fact, it shows the true historic leaps that megacities can have on the world population in the near…

The purpose of this research is to identify why adolescents who are in a specific age group mainly focusing on late elementary too early to late middle school are not showing the same expected outcome to continue on to higher education. Factors like low socioeconomic status, crime in the urban environment they live in, the schools these children go to all play a major part in why they do not believe they have a chance in furthering their education compared to adolescents who are enrolled in…

Planning is a process, and humans have been planning for as long as they have been living in communities. This process has been refined and altered over multiple centuries and even today the planning process is evolving. However planning has mostly only occurred when big technological advancements and opportunities came about, the biggest advancements or rather the rapid changes and the time period when planners were most needed occurred when people changed their thinking. Known as the paradigm…