Urbanization

Professor, SPA Delhi Abstract Under the influence of rapid urbanization and economic development, many Indian cities 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…

from the suburbs to the urbanized heart of Toronto, the change of architecture was noticeable. In the suburbs there are many multi-story houses, in residential neighborhoods. But when traveling south, bungalows were more common. This is because as urbanization continues, new home are being built along the suburbs, whereas older bungalows remain from a time before. Aside from building differences, the landscape also changed, the landscape is generally smoother and flatter closer to downtown.…

created serious problems that required to be addressed. Through the sources: “Studies of Factory Life: Among the Women” by Lillie B. Chase Wyman and “Waifs in New York City’s Slums” by Jacob Riis, we can piece together how industrialization and urbanization affected the working class and the poor. These reformers during this era spent their time trying to expose the horrors of the working class and poor and the changes of gender role of women, which was a rising consequence of the…

well as an aroused interest in the material world and nature triggered cultural concepts in the Renaissance such as art, politics, trade, urbanization and technological advances such as the Printing Press (which were acclimated to apportion opinions). During the Renaissance, ideas and culture spread through the expansion of commerce, appearance of urbanization, and the influence of the Printing Press. An expansion of commerce during the Renaissance allowed for the spreading of ideas and culture.…

aspect attributed to Asia’s growth is population dynamics. The expanding population and migration of people is attributed to Asian cities growth. “Urbanization is an outcome of rural-urban migration, fertility levels in cities and boundary changes as cities grow and encroach upon the surrounding rural areas. (Hamnett, Stephen, and D. K. Forbes).” Urbanization is part of the expansion in population in Asia. Unlike most of the world, where growth is driven by natural population growth, growth in…

In general, people want to move from rural to urban areas because there are many opportunities such as job, education and health in the cities where people migrate. This leads to the development and growth of cities. But, sometimes people have to make forced migration or they enter the country illegally. If these migrations get out of control, the city will be adversely affected such as crime rate, unemployment, air, land and water pollution. If these problems are increased, it disrupts social…

Urban sociology studies the life and human interactions in the city. The social life in the twenty first century consists of both the traditional and familiar trends as well as the new developing trends (Sassen, 2006). Hence, living in the cities is always exciting as well as complicated. Dhaka is a city which has a history of more than 400 years. In 1610, Dhaka was named as Jahangirnagar by subedar Islam Khan Chishti. Many of the famous infrastructures were built during the British and Mughal…

Thus rises the need of relief spaces in the dense urban matrix. They can be any kind of open spaces or water body, green belts-manmade or natural. Urban Morphology of cities show the gradual decrease and decease of open spaces with the process of urbanization. Open spaces are mandatory for the sustenance of an urban area. They provide recreational and relaxation spaces, platform for social interactions and cultural exchange in diverse urban communities, environmental and health benefits,…

Solution to overpopulation in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Resettling migrants in suburban areas Imagine yourself together with three other people suffocating in one meter of land . That will be the first step for you to imagine how stifling it would be for the people who are living in Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam. From a promising land that has high potential for full development, this metropolis has become overpopulated due to the “high level of unregistered rural migration” as well as “ the spread…

Planet of the Slums written by Mike Davis paints a very pessimistic picture of the conditions that were presented in what he calls the “urban South”. By being pessimistic, Davis only see things in the worst aspects and thinks that it will continue to get worse from here on out. The term “urban South” is used by Mike Davis throughout the book, it refers to the third world countries that are all over the globe, hence the title of the book “Planet” of the Slums. When referring to the “urban South”,…