In earlier decades, urbanization in India was said to have a dual dimension. The first view was that the urbanization process is not unequal, but has a very stable distribution, whereas the second view, alleged that the distribution was ‘top-heavy’, with large size class towns and cities mainly driving the urbanization process, while the small and medium sized cities barely growing. Mohan etal. 1982, the advocates of the first view, showed that the idea of ‘top heavy urban structure’ in India is
better education, hospitals, etc. Urbanization occured in MDCs as that promoted the place and people started to migrate into the urban areas. 17. Prior to 1950s, why was urbanization found in MDCs rather than LDCs. Urbanization was found in MDcs because it took place in the industrialization period in Europe during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. As mentioned earlier people moved from rural areas to urban areas for better opportunities and rapid urbanization took place in MDCs. 18. List
home of unbridled opportunity and success; but in reality was a time of social, economic, and political controversies. A strong republican government supported by an unjust voting system existed, and the harmful effects of industrialization and urbanization were felt by the working class of America. The effects of the unregulated rise of capitalism in big businesses threatened the public. Progressive movements consisting of citizens who pressed for reform in order to better these conditions for the
According to the common definition of poverty, when a person can no longer meet the required levels to maintain specified standard of living, they are considered poor .This becomes apparent after just a short amount of time spent in the country. For example, states such as Goa, Delhi and Punjab have relatively low poverty ratios whereas %38 of the population of Bihar and Orissa live below the poverty line, the figures are even worse for Calcutta and Maharashtra pushing nearly %50.The poverty and situations
1. Introduction Developing countries The speed ofhave a higher urbanization in level developing countries is more than developed countries. In these countries, the rapid Rapid pace of urbanization in developing countries and the growth of cities have followedcan create many problems. Planned Plans for expansion of cities are required to alleviate meet the residents' demands has always been one of the goals of urban planning. Hence, attention to physical development, as a necessity in urban development
development(figure), China has now become the world's second largest economy. The level of urbanization of China is highly elevated with the rural population rushing into the cities in the passing years. According to the statistics released by the national bureau of statistic(NBS), the urbanization rates of China in 1953,1964,1982,1990,200 and 2010 were 12.84%, 17.58%,20.43%, 25.84%, 35.39% and 49.68% respectively. In 2011, the urbanization rate exceeded 50% ；in 2016, it raised to 57.35% (Figure). In 2016, the urban
Development, urbanization and nation-building have indeed affected the gender positions and change notions of gender in various ways and levels. However, it is not right to say that these factors have totally changed the notions of gender South Asia, but instead it has only improved the situation by a small margin as compared to the past as gender inequities continues to persist in South Asia. In order to totally get rid of the gender inequality, a greater voice and power of women would be needed
One example of this is that, among young professionals, traffic problems appear to cause the most concern in Macau according to a survey by Macau Polytechnic University (Zhidong). Macau has a small geographic territory of 27.5 square kilometers. And with Macau’s
of the “New West.” The wave of immigrants also contributed to the rapid urbanization of the “New West.” The United States evolved
the majority of population shift occurred in developed countries. The industrialization process that took place in Europe and the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries attracted people from rural areas to the cities. After 1950, urbanization in these countries slowed down and started to double in the developing areas of the world, (Internet Geography, 2014) Between 1950 and 1992 the world’s GDP increased from $4 trillion to 23 trillion and the GDP per capita tripled. Consequently