URBANIZATION

Urbanization



Urbanization

Introduction

Urbanization results from migration of people from the rural areas to the urban and metropolitan cities of the world, in order to improve their life style and income. However, due to increased rate of migration, the governments of poor countries have intense pressure to urbanize their big cities in order to retain the best pool of employees in their home countries.

Urbanization is a multilateral socioeconomic, demographic and geographic process that takes place on the basis of historical patterns of social and territorial division of labor. Today there are many poor countries which are trying to move towards urbanization. ...