The Impact Of Urbanization

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Urbanization is population moving from rural to urban areas, increase in population living in urban areas and the ways in which people adapt to this change. Mainly, it is the process through which cities are formed and become larger as the population increases and more number of people start living and working in the central areas. The United Nation forecasted that world’s half population would start living in urban areas at the end of 2008. It is estimated that about 64% of developing countries and 86% of developed countries will be urbanized by 2050. That is almost 3 billion urbanities by 2050, maximum of which will occur in Africa and Asia. United Nations has recently forecasted that almost all global population increase from 2015 to 2030 …show more content…

The situation observed to exist to happen has been closely connected to advancement, manufacturing, and anthropological process of justification. Urbanization is seen as a specific condition at time (e.g. the part of total people living or area in cities or towns) or an increase in that state over the time. Urbanization creates massive social, economic and environmental changes, which gives a chance for bearing with the “power to use resources more aggressively, to make use out of the land and to safeguard our …show more content…

By this well populated areas, very much close to main cities, whereas a small town would be of urban population if the area has more than 1000 people living.
Australia is basically an urban country, from the Census of 2011; almost 88.9% of the people lived in urban Australia only about 1 in 10 rural and small town habitant. Australia is one of the highly urbanized communities in the world. Rate of population growing in cities of Australia is causing pressure on infrastructure, such as transport, roads, energy and natural resources in the urban environment.
Constant movement of people from rural areas to cities in search of jobs and other needs is causing extreme strain on urban housing and basic services. Fast urbanization has created many challenges for the housing development authorities to access the land. There is extreme shortage of housing in urban areas as per demand. The National Building Organization (NBO) estimated that in 1991 urban housing shortage was 8.23 million and has decreased to 7.57 million in 1997 and 6.64 in 2001.In previous years, the price of land has risen exponentially making it completely unaffordable for middle income

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