Population Growth, Educational Opportunities and Industrialization

Adrian Thomas

BIOL_115_C-12-55

7/15/13

Population growth, educational opportunities and industrialization has created the need for larger urban areas; this physical growth of urban areas to facilitate the population shift is known as urbanization. Although urbanization is seen as a change population it’s much more than that, it is a change in lifestyle where rural cultures are being replaced by urban cultures. Urban sprawl or the spreading of urban areas to facilitate this lifestyle change has attracted some negative attention because of its effects on the environment and healthy lifestyle of people, and the wasting of resources, the building of more industries along with the use of motor transportation by residents of these urban areas leads to more air pollutions and since the members of these urban communities alter their lifestyle by walking less we see more health issues. These and other factors has contributed to the controlling of urban sprawl by limiting new construction and population growth, however this limitation on expansion has its own negative effects such as the rising cost of housing prices. The writer of this paper will discuss how the increase of housing prices has impacted the availability of housing for poorer people, in doing so the writer will seek to justify whether or not the limits placed on who can live where is moral or ethical and how urban renewal programs have impacted the availability of housing and urban sprawl.

As communities tries to minimize the effects of urban sprawl they use methods such as limiting construction in certain areas. This policy which main focus is to restrict the growth process in an effort to protect open spaces in the environment and reduce the usage of motor vehicles by limiting the expansion of metropolitan areas has created a demand and supply crisis in the housing market and as such causing the prices for housing to skyrocket, placing tremendous burdens on poorer people who simply can’t afford to...