Essays on Urbanization

Urbanization refers to an increase in population in cities and towns versus rural areas. It is the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas. There are many causes of urbanization;reasons that make people move from rural areas to urban areas. These...

CO2 and other toxic gases are being released into the air in large quantities from factories, manufacturing firms, transportation vehicles, and burning of fossil fuels by the residents themselves. As the country began to industrialize, many people from rural areas come to urban center mainly...

Globalization has progressed over the past years in different fields such as migration, education, technology, travel, trade, knowledge, and spreading cultural influences. Globalization has on the whole been very beneficial for people and has had a positive impact in terms of politics, economy and culture...

Strength comes with planning, precision, and continuous practice of past successes. Western cultures have proven this true in the last three centuries. Urban sprawl, another word used for urbanization. Urbanization mostly refers to the rapidly increasing population of urban areas. It can also be defined...

“Edward Lorenz put it, ‘climate is what you expect, weather is what you get’” (Allen, 2003) Nowadays, we are no having the weather that we expect, because of the global warming that humans are making, that is causing the climate change, and that is the...

Rebecca Solnit’s “Walking and The Suburbanized Psyche” expounds the alarming ramifications that suburbanization and the devaluation of walking has in today’s society. Suburbanization has forced us to lose a connection to our minds and bodies, which lead us to lose with our imagination along with...

In an era of rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, the discussion around climate change is becoming ever more pertinent to the design of cities. Urban populations continue to rise and with that, cities are expanding in a phenomenon known as urban sprawl. As city living becomes...

Over the decades, Toronto has been celebrated for its multicultural roots and cultural landscapes. With a variety of distinctive enclaves at every corner, they connect people to their cultures and invite a wide variety of diversity. With the growth of new development and the priority...

Nations prosperity is closely associated to the development of their cities and globally account for more than 80% of the world GDP. Cities play a vital role as hubs for employment, especially youth, innovation and peace in a country like Afghanistan, which has extremely affected...

Noise levels can be challenging in urban environments and a source of sensory overload. ‘Unwanted noise’ such as traffic, sirens, even conversation can be deafening at times. Positive or negative, the sounds in our surrounding environments influence our lives. Human beings have a threshold of...

Milan’s landscape strategy to connect the whole city was initiated a few years ago as a Green ray concept. The Green Rays are a task advanced by the Territory Development and Furnishing Sector, Urban and Green system of the City of Milan in 2008, for...

The practice of open urination and defecation in different parts of our cities does not help the situation. After all, who can forget the outbreak of plague in 1994 in Surat resulting in the deaths of many people? More than anything, Surat brought a negative...

For Unit 7 of the AP Human Geography course I decided to use the article, “Salvation Army’s First Grocery Store Helps Baltimore’s Disadvantaged,” by Deborah Block. The article discusses how a charity called Salvation Army recently opened up a grocery store in a poor part...

The expansion of Barcelona in the mid 1800s was a necessary step to improve the quality of life of the citizens. The services and spaces lived inharmonious, and the city was characterized by density, congestion, terrible water supply, poor sanitation, non-existent sewage systems, and disease...

Within a few years’ time we can expect the planet to become more crowded, resources more valuable, and innovative urban planners largely crucial. By the mid of the century, the global population will likely overcome nine billion , and more than half of the population...

T.S. Eliot’s poem The Waste Land depicts a modern society engulfed in absolute chaos and plagued by the complications of industrialization. Image clusters from the poem vividly describe littered streets overcrowded with people, while the text itself reads abruptly and harshly. Thus, Eliot’s poem strongly...

Australia is one of the most urbanised countries worldwide, but is that good? Recent studies have shown that all the outer suburbs in Australia are falling behind to access to employment, amenities, services and urban design, factors that all facilitate liveability. But what is it...

China has experienced vast economic reforms which have extended since 1978 and have been accompanied by an indisputable income inequality. The economic growth bolstered by widespread industrialization has significantly reduced China’s poverty level. However, income inequality has taken a fast-paced upward trend beyond levels experienced...

Wood is one of the longest standing building materials in existence… homes built over 10,000 years ago used timber as a primary source for construction materials it is also used as a dominant form of fuel for heat, additionally 25% of the world’s lumber harvest...

Abstract Our planet is inhabited by our 7 billion people and is in the midst of massive transition due to climatic change, biological evolution. Climatic change brings its adverse consequences such as threat to biodiversity and risk to human health, rising sea level, increasing water...

Urbanization refers to the population shift from countryside to towns and cities. It is the process by which towns and cities are formed and how existing ones become larger as more people begin living and working in central areas in hope that they will enjoy...

Given the rise of urbanization, citizens who live in village or hometown are willing to relocate to big cities, such as Beijing, United States, New York. They wanted to have a better place to live. It is analyzed that urbanization could not be avoided. Urbanization...

The world has sworn to eradicate poverty and malnutrition by 2030 as sustainable development goals implemented in 2015 by United Nations. Still, growing urbanization is imposing new challenges to development, and as per latest study, India is principally vulnerable since it confronts another twin burden...

In this essay, the differences between the two movements are not discussed and the term SGNU is used for both Smart Growth and New Urbanism. One thing needs to be clarified is that SGNU emerged to join the postmodernism-versus-modernism debate but not a follower of...

The phenomenon of urban temperature is a phenomenon that occurs in many cities in the world, including Makassar. Therefore, green open space (GOS) either private or public demand to be developed. This study tries to analyze the condition and the demand of GOS in Makassar...

Cities are everywhere and the majority of us have had at least encountered what it feels like to be in one. Thus, it is imperative to start acknowledging how we could improve it – making it easier for everyone to understand, navigate, manipulate and most...

The consequences of global warming are becoming more serious now that the change of climate is visible. Within the decade, not only have different types of disasters been occurring, but they have been increasing in different parts of the world. Within thirteen months, two mega...

Study Background The term “livability” is indefinite in meaning, and as a result, it has different meanings, and different researchers have different views on this. Livability refers to the well-being of any community and shows many of the characteristics of any community, making a place...

Urbanization typically has negative effects on natural parks, and nature in general, with trees and sometimes even entire forests being cut down to have houses and buildings built.The world is becoming more urbanized as time goes by, and the majority of people in the world...

Floor Area Ratio (FAR) is one of the main features of urban area, which is always considered by urban planners. This issue has become as one of the major bases of urban development policy in Iran within the past recent years and been emphasized through...