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What is Urbanization
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The growth of urban population as a result of immigration from rural areas and from natural population growth within the urban areas. In developing countries, unsustainable urban development places stress on services and housing with serious consequences for public health due to poor sanitation, lack of safe water, inadequate waste disposal, and a degraded environment.
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This is a gradual or continuous movement of people towards urban centers.
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The process through which cities grow, and higher and higher percentages of the population comes to live in the city.
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A process of development of cities and of concentration of human populations.
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The process by which towns and cities are formed, and which, by natural or mechanical increase in the population, become larger because more and more people live and work in the central areas.
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Is the process of occupation of an area of the city with implantation of some urban infrastructure.
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This is the increase in number of people in a given town or city.
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This refers to the population shift from rural to urban residency, and the technological ways in which each society of people adapts to the technological changes.
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The process of growth and development of cities, increasing the share of the urban population in the country, region, the world. The process of increasing the role of cities in the development of society, the spread of urban life, and its accompanying social processes.
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Urbanization
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urbanization
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A process where an increasing percentage of the population live in cities.
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Urbanization
roughly means the physical growth of the urban areas due to the increasing number of population living in the urban areas.
Urbanization
means not only the physical extension and growth of the population but also the increasing complexity of social dynamics and the environmental contradictions in the urban environment.
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It refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas.
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