Soc/120 Urbinization Trends

Urbanization Trends

Urbanization is usually caused by an over abundance of jobs for people with specific skills and trained professionals in urban centers and the relative lack of unemployment opportunities for those living in rural areas. Other causes of urbanization is a developing countries turn toward industrialized work and more away from economics based mainly on agriculture, many farmers, their children and field hands tune toward jobs in industrial work instead. Many heavy industries are usually located around major cities and this focuses people to move away from rural areas.

The causes of urbanization in poor countries can be simplified in to a few rational thoughts and ideals as to why people urbanize. If one thinks about it, it is a natural course of action to for humans to see the company of others and this is done for a couple of reasons. One is the need for social interaction and in larger social societies one is more apt to find work. As more people come seeking work, these people need homes, food and so on, giving people in this large group more work, expanding the need for more laborers, before long a town is forms, which in time turns into a city.

The rational is that people find it easier to function without the need to travel for distances to obtain things and or find work and the like in a community like setting, eliminating the need to search over long distances for work and food. And as such people will always find themselves gathering in an urbanization fashion.

The way urbanization occurred in China according to Li, Si-ming, (2004). “Urbanization process in China as revealed by the 1990 population census and the 1995 National one percent sample population survey. It is found that in comparison with the personal 1985-90, migration in the period 1990-95 tended to be more distance sensitive, reflecting the increase in the number of migration foci resulting from the policy of open all fronts.” So in essence by the opening of all...