Metropolitan Toronto

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,…

Several factors contribute to the rise of Dos Lagos. The first important factor is the affordability of housing. Los Angeles is the largest city in California. As a metropolitan area, the housing price in Los Angeles is quite high. As a result, many Los Angeles workers chose to live outside the city. Dos Lagos becomes an ideal choice for them. The housing price is much lower than that in Los Angeles areas. Second, the…

Does Urbanisation affect Global Pollution? By 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…

Thesis, Revitalization of Urban Villages, Maujpur & Ghonda, DILIP SINGH KUSHWAHA, USAP 2009 12.) Journal, Rupa Datta, Territorial Integration of Urbanising Villages 2004 13.) Dr.Tapash Biswas, Structural Transformation of the Villages in Delhi Metropolitan Region, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi…

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…

process of industrialisation. Labours move for opportunities and the capitalist sector starts to expand, the state supports such an expansion by providing infrastructure in the main urban centres. As metropolitan development accelerates, the private capital begins to decentralise to areas within the metropolitan region but outside the main city to reduce increased costs (e.g. labour, land, traffic congestion and…

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…

Urban versus Small Towns Due to the rapid growth of urbanization, a massive gap has been created between urban environments and small towns. These communities have distinct features which measure their own kind of uniqueness, their own set of attributes, how they shape human relations and cultures, as well as the amount of freedom people living in the communities have. Urban environments and small towns differentiate from one another in three main aspects which are in their numbers, density,…

Introduction: The world is urbanizing rapidly; the present population living in urban areas is 54%. The more urban an area, the more concretized it is. Urban areas are quite warmer than the rural counterpart, the natural ecosystems are being replaced by buildings and other structures. There is significant temperature differences between city centers and their surrounding countryside and surface temperatures can be much greater in high density suburbs compared to low-density suburbs; the reason…