Megacity

In order to be considering a megacity, a city has to have over 10 million citizens in its metropolitan area (Bugliarello, 1999). Different reasons can be nominated as causes of cities become a megacity. People coming from rural areas trying to find a better condition of life maybe are the major reason of the population growth in most megacities. However, with a big agglomeration of people and a big city, the government has to not let the problems assume control of the city. Problems such as overpopulation, housing and natural disasters are common in every megacity and solve them are important to achieve a better quality of life and avoid or reduce environmental problems for the citizens. Every year, people move to city centres to achieve successful…

When we think of civilizations and where their power resides, we think of the great cities and capitals that were built. As time goes on and civilizations rise and fall, most of those cities are all that remain. Most people in the world today live in an urban area, and while the term urban is defined differently in various countries, it is generally defined as a non-agrarian landscape. The author goes on that several upcoming urban areas especially those in less-developed countries are heading…

Future Megacity Operations—Lessons from Sadr City The challenges U.S. forces confronted in Sadr City in 2004 and 2008 offer a condensed version of what awaits in future megacities. A megacity is a metropolitan area with a total population in excess of 10 million. In Sadr City’s case, with every day a struggle for survival the Sadrists’ limited initiatives earned tremendous loyalty among the slum’s population and after 2003, the founding of the Jaysh al-Mahdi (JAM) strengthened the coercive…

Intro This is a critical Review of the Documentary by National Geographic Megacities: New York. In this documentary various environmental issues are presented, this critical review will explore the issues presented. Present Environmental issues include; the increase in population highlighted by the expansion of buildings and public transport. Urbanization and the Urban heat island. The energy consumed by the construction, maintenance and use of public transport systems. Underground construction…

With reference to Harvey, David. 2000. "The Spaces of Utopia," Megacities Lecture 4: Possible Urban Worlds, Part II (Twynstra: Amersfoort, Netherlands), 53-81. The history and the diversity of the megacities has come since the eighteenth century, and it became more complicated with current technology and innovations, in every decade different thoughts and concepts have been raised with the definition of the sustainable city. Turning over cities to a sustainable cities, is a long-term investment,…

In the documentary Megacities Reflect Growing Urbanization Trend it tells of the growing trends of migrants to major cities for a better life and even though most migrants move to city slums, the slums offer a better life than the home they left behind. They are many social issues that people face as the city slums grows in size such as over crowed population, lack of housing, polluted water, lack of electricity and food. Although the wealthy are affected by the over crowed population and…

Mexico City, like other megacities in Latin America, faces several major environmental problems that have not just local but regional and global implications. One of the prominent issues that plague Mexico City is the pollution of water. Therefore with the rapid population growth, insufficient sanitation, urbanization, and inefficient treatment of waste water or lack of management of the water resources, the water pollution continues to rise each year. Due to the unclean water there have been…

the globe has its own characteristics and features that make it distinct from any other city. The characteristic distinctions may be realized in terms of city demographics, city administration structures, geographical locales, infrastructure and public facility configuration, and economic systems, among other city aspects and factors. Employing data collection and high level thinking skills, research is carried out to compare and contrast two Asian megacities. In particular, this city report…

The major rapid growth of different populations in our megacities comes at the wrong time. Global population growth is currently in the process from all the poorest parts of countries. Especially when it comes to destinations such as Africa and India. Clearly, India is a growing population with even increasing education levels, which is likely to put India as a power player in the future. According to the different UN Projections, India’s urban population will increase by nearly 250 million in…

societies in Europe slowly strayed away from agrarian based society and lean towards urbanization. During the 1800's, industrial revolution took place in many megacities in Britain, including Manchester. Today, Manchester and Britain as a whole, is considered as a well developed society and megacities in developing countries such as Sao Paulo, Brazil currently facing similar issues that megacities in developed nations have faced in the past, in order to be more successful. During the 1800's,…