"Urbanization (or urbanisation) is the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change."
The transformation of rural areas into urban areas and the cultural changes that occur in the process.
Urbanization: The process of population shift from rural areas to urban areas, resulting in the growth of cities and towns.
Urban Planning: The process of designing and managing the physical, social, and economic development of cities and towns.
Sustainable Cities: Cities that are designed, built, and operated to enhance the well-being of people, optimize the use of resources, and reduce negative impacts on the environment.
City Infrastructure: The basic physical and organizational structures, and facilities needed for the operation of a city, including transportation, power, water, and communication.
Urban Land Use: The way in which land is used in urban areas, including residential, commercial, industrial, and open spaces.
Gentrification: The process of renovating and improving a neighborhood, resulting in an influx of wealthier residents and businesses, often leading to displacement of original residents.
Urbanization and Public Health: The impact of urbanization on public health, including issues such as air and water pollution, communicable diseases, and access to health care.
Urban Economics: The study of the economic activity in cities, including business development, employment, and income distribution.
Urban Culture: The unique social and cultural characteristics of urban areas, including art, music, food, and historical landmarks.
Urban Anthropology: The study of the cultural and social aspects of urban living, including issues such as diversity, neighborhood dynamics, and urban folklore.
"It can also mean population growth in urban areas instead of rural ones."
"It is predominantly the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more people begin living and working in central areas."
"Urbanization refers to the proportion of the total national population living in areas classified as urban, whereas urban growth strictly refers to the absolute number of people living in those areas."
"It is predicted that by 2050 about 64% of the developing world and 86% of the developed world will be urbanized."
"This is predicted to generate artificial scarcities of land, lack of drinking water, playgrounds and so on for most urban dwellers."
"Much of which will occur in Africa and Asia."
"The United Nations has also recently projected that nearly all global population growth from 2017 to 2030 will be by cities, with about 1.1 billion new urbanites over the next 10 years."
"Urbanization is relevant to a range of disciplines, including urban planning, geography, sociology, architecture, economics, education, statistics, and public health."
"The phenomenon has been closely linked to globalization, modernization, industrialization, and the sociological process of rationalization."
"Therefore, urbanization can be quantified either in terms of the level of urban development relative to the overall population, or as the rate at which the urban proportion of the population is increasing."
"Urbanization creates enormous social, economic and environmental challenges..."
"...which provide an opportunity for sustainability with the 'potential to use resources much less or more efficiently, to create more sustainable land use and to protect the biodiversity of natural ecosystems.'"
"However, current urbanization trends have shown that massive urbanization has led to unsustainable ways of living."
"Developing urban resilience and urban sustainability in the face of increased urbanization is at the center of international policy."
"Urbanization is not merely a modern phenomenon, but a rapid and historic transformation of human social roots on a global scale."
"Village culture is characterized by common bloodlines, intimate relationships, and communal behavior, whereas urban culture is characterized by distant bloodlines, unfamiliar relations, and competitive behavior."
"This unprecedented movement of people is forecast to continue and intensify during the next few decades, mushrooming cities to sizes unthinkable only a century ago."
"The world urban population growth curve has up till recently followed a quadratic-hyperbolic pattern."
"Urbanization is 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."