Asl topic urbanisation
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Urbanization refers to the increasing number of people that live in urban areas.
It predominantly results in the physical growth of urban areas, be it horizontal or vertical.
The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008.
By 2050 it is predicted that 64.1% and 85.9% of the developing and developed world respectively will be urbanized.
Urbanization is closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and the sociological process of rationalization.
Urbanization can describe a specific condition at a set time, i.e. the proportion of total population or area in cities or towns, or the term can describe the increase of this proportion over time.
So the term urbanization can represent the level of urban development relative to overall population, or it can represent the rate at which the urban proportion is increasing.
Urbanization is not merely a modern phenomenon, but a rapid and historic transformation of human social roots on a global scale, whereby predominantly rural culture is being rapidly replaced by predominantly urban culture.
The last major change in settlement patterns was the accumulation of hunter-gatherers into villages many thousand years ago.