Urbanisation is a demographic process whereby an increasing proportion of population of a region or a country lives in urban areas. It has three linked concepts. Urbanization 1. Demographic phenomena 2. Structural change in society 3. Urbanisation as a behavioural process As a demographic phenomenon, it is interpreted as a process involving the absolute and relative growth of towns and cities within a defined area. The structural change in society is linked with the demographic process
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Improvement In slums such as Dharavi the conditions are famously poor, where there are open sewers, narrow lanes and cramped huts, but still so many people move here. This is a consequence of rural to urban migration; people are attracted to the city by the "bright lights syndrome" and the prospects of jobs and a better standard of life. TNC's tend to build their businesses here due to the cheap labour available, but there are just too many people moving in and not enough jobs. This rapid growth
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population slowly grows, or movement from rural settlements to urban cities and towns occurs more often. Urbanization is defined as “an increase in a countries proportion of population that lives in towns and cities”. Urbanization can be a very slow process for some areas, such as LEDC’s, however countries that are more developed anyway can go through the process a lot faster as they have resources such as money to fund projects leading to an urban area being built. An example of a city that has very
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Commuting, Transportation Spending and Urban Sprawl Roy L. Coxon April 29, 2015 Dr. Hatten My overall topic for my research project is Commuting, Transportation Spending and Urban Sprawl. The purpose of this project is to design a research study to determine and clarify what effect urban sprawl has on private-vehicle commuting costs and household expenditures. Let us first look at the definition of sprawl. There is no universally accepted definition although there have numerous attempts to
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Contesting the Margins of Modernity: Women, Migration, and Consumption in Thailand Author(s): Mary Beth Mills Source: American Ethnologist, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Feb., 1997), pp. 37-61 Published by: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the American Anthropological Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/646565 . Accessed: 18/04/2011 07:38 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms
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Urban Geography * Urban is a matter of scale * Large size * High density * Vertical geography * Social heterogeneity * What is the minimum population to be categorized as a city in the US? * 2,500 * Physical Definition of a City * Central City – delimited municipality within which local government has legal authority * Urbanized Area – central city plus surrounding built-up suburbs (DOES NOT correspond to government boundaries) * MSA
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The White Paper on Local Government 9 March 1998 The White Paper is dedicated to the memory of Tshepiso Mashinini (1966-1998), chairperson of the White Paper Working Committee, and all the other women and men who contributed to the building of a democratic system of local government in South Africa CONTENTS Foreword by Minister Mohammed Valli Moosa Foreword by Mr Pravin Gordhan Introduction SECTION A: CURRENT REALITY 1. A history of local government 2. The current state of local
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Faced with fast-growing cities, inadequate urban infrastructure, and a large youthful population in need of employment, the Ethiopian Government turned to an innovative solution: Cobblestone road production throughout the country, driven by community participation and local materials. In recent years, cobblestone road creation has become one of the most successful infrastructure and job creation programmes in the country, with tremendous benefits for the urban poor. It has created hundreds of thousands
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Dimension | Strengths | Weaknesses | Opportunities | Threats | Urban Physical | * Historic Character * Walkable distances * Hotspot for urban diversity * Appealing mix of traditional and modern architecture | * Vacant land * Degraded structures * Lack of pedestrian level streetscape design * Bad parking management * No drainage structures * Crowded housing * Poor legibility (the ease at which people can find their way around the district) * A lot of signage but
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DRAFT: The Importance of Urban Greenspaces Joe Green Strayer University July 1, 2015 URBAN GREENSPACES 2 Draft: The Importance of Urban Greenspaces My community and I have benefited from urban greenspaces in various ways. Interfacing with nature via greenspaces is significant to me personally for several reasons. I chose to write about urban greenspaces because parks and forests were a very important aspect of my childhood, I have observed how the disparity of greenspaces
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