Topic > Urbanization: Overview and Effects - 1192

Urbanization is the gradual and constant increase in the population of people in urban areas or rather in cities. Urbanization is mostly associated with the phenomenon of rural-urban migration which occurs when people move in large numbers from rural to urban areas in search of a better quality of life. As much as this is the only way to increase the population, people can also move from other urban areas to other more urbanized areas if they choose to do so. In its early stage, urbanization was mostly influenced by people who wanted better jobs than they had in the countryside, so people moved to more modernized places as agriculture was now less common and a world was emerging more technological, so they moved to urban areas. for this reason and above all better wages. (R.Faridi, 2012; Business Dictionary) In the early years, urbanization occurred mainly in the capital cities of the country or province since they were the areas that modernized faster than other places, and this was because when people visited an area in which they first set foot in the capital of that area as it serves as the main attraction before other areas. But as we know now, there are areas that are more urbanized than their respective capitals and this is due to the fact that others offer more resources and more diversified standards of living. A country is said to be urbanized when more than half of its population lives in urban environments. European or rather developed countries were the first to be urbanized, but in recent years developing countries are becoming increasingly urbanized and with more people living in urban areas. (R.Faridi, 2012)With urbanization and the constant movement into the city, there is a tendency to ar...... middle of paper ......also poses some positive effects which in a certain sense also help with other problems. First, it provides the city with a large amount of cheap labor for industries that are trying to provide low-level jobs to people. This means now that all those peace works that other people don't want to do will now have occupants. These include jobs such as bricklayer, waiter and street cleaner, among others. This means that now there will be more people working in that area and therefore they will have a higher output in terms of production and therefore will have a good effect on the economy. As the population increases in the long run more services will come as in the initial stage not many services were available but now as time goes by the government will have noticed the situation and will try to have some kind of structural plan for the future.