Urban+Renewal+(1-2)

Causes and effects

Urbanization is the shift from a rural to an urban society and involves an increase in the number of people that are in the urban areas during a certain year. Urbanization is increasing in both the developing and developed countries. But rapid urbanization, particularly the growth of large cities, and the associated problems of unemployment, inadequate health, poverty, poor sanitation, urban slums and environmental degradation pose a formidable challenges in a lot of developing countries. More then half of the world’s 6.6 billion people live in urban areas, crowded into three percent of the earth’s land area. In Africa most people move into urban areas because they are pushed out by factors such as poverty, religious strife, environmental degradation, political persecution, food insecurity and lack of basic infrastructure and services in the rural areas.

Group 2