Question

urbanisation asl speech class 11

Answer 1

Urbanization:

-Urbanization refers to the migration of the population from rural to urban areas in search of better employment opportunities and living conditions.
-it has been closely linked to other processes such as modernization, industrialization and sociological processes where we see a shift in the population to areas which are better developed, both in terms of infrastructure and mindset.
-it creates enormous social, economic and environmental changes as cities are created and then developed, gaining in landmass and encroaching upon agricultural or forested lands.
-it is a modern phenomenon which resulted in a transformation from rural culture to decidedly urban culture as people began to move away from their families and struck out on their own breaking the community set-up.
-the cities that come out of this process are concrete jungles with their own way of functioning