advantages and disadvantages of urbanization
Answers
Answer:
Advantages of Urbanization
It helps in overall economic development of the country because due to urbanization local talents gets chances whether it is in sports, business, entertainment and by using the talent of these people many industries as well as companies are getting better and bigger which in turn is helping the country in achieving its target of economic growth and also enabling the country to have competitive edge in global markets.
People who are from rural areas are deprived of basic amenities like school, hospitals, banks and so on but due to urbanization these people get these facilities and hence it helps in improving the overall living standard of people.
Due to urbanization foreign companies having international presence come to set up their companies because these companies want all facilities and in rural or semi urban areas these facilities are not present and hence urbanization promotes foreign direct investment which in turn helps in improving the foreign exchange reserves of the country.
Since people in rural areas are more superstitious and follow old age traditions like which leads to many problems but due to urbanization when these people come to cities slowly they began to come out of their regressive attitude.
Disadvantages of Urbanization
due to urbanization many people benefit but not all get the opportunities which results in those people doing illegal things like robbery, kidnapping, murder and so on and thus one can say that urbanization is party behind the increasing crime rates in big cities.
Since many people migrate to cities it results in scarcity of houses which in turn results in development of slums and since in these slums many people live in small areas (which is unhygienic) it results in these people contracting many diseases.
Urbanization leads to shift of working population from agriculture to industries and due to this there is fall in agriculture produce which results in fall in food production and that in turn results in inflation as there is more demand and less supply of food products.
Metro cities due to urbanization are not prepared to face natural disasters like flood, earthquake, tsunami and if faced with such disasters it can cause loss of both property and people.
Hence from the above one can see that urbanization has got benefits as well as it has its limitations, but if government is awake then it can eradicate the disadvantages of urbanization and take benefit from it to build a better nation.