Urban Transition Essay

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According to Ronald Skeldon, author of “Demographic and Urban Transitions in a Global System and Policy Responses” Urban Transition is the transitions to societies where a large majority of the population is concentrated in urban areas. Urban transition is one of the phenomenons which has an impression of being both good and bad. Urban transition has a potential to positively impact a nation by increasing the economy growth and reducing the poverty. In addition, it has a potential to give safer and healthier future to children and adults. These are just some of the issues that can be fixed by urban transition IF and only IF its being carried out properly. On other hand, it can also be a hazardous phenomenon for the citizens of a country. Urban …show more content…

Lastly, urban transition can result in lower sustainability due to increasing amount of migrations. The trend of moving to bigger city in search for a “better” living condition and “safer” future could cost a city or even a nation huge amounts of loss. Even though there are many benefits to going through urban transformation, urban transition should not occur within a country or a city because it results in urban overpopulation due to migration and causes lower sustainability.

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On contrary, urban transition is usually thought of as beneficial for the country. Citizens have high expectations out of it. However, urban transition is solely to blame for the increasing population in the cities. In my opinion this phenomena starts with the elections. The candidates promise the citizens to bring a change into their world. Urban transition is the change they talk about most often. In current events, India is having an election for the prime minister, the candidates promises citizens to bring good supply of water, electricity and to create more jobs. Such actions give people living in developing countries a light of hope to better

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