URBANIZATION

URBANIZATION

Urbanization is an increase in the percent (%) of a region or country’s population living in an urban area. It is also the increase in the proportion of the population living in the urban areas. It is the process of people moving to cities or other densely settled area. Urbanization leads to urban growth and urban growth is an increase in number of people living in urban areas

Factors Influences Urbanization

There are three (3) conditions that must always be in place for cities to developed, these are:

1.      There must be surplus of farm products i.e. farmers must farm more than enough for their own subsistence.

2.     There must be a means of transportation of these agricultural products where they can be processed into items of food, clothing and shelter.

3.     There must be sufficiently developed technologies in the urban areas to use farm products and provides employments of the urban dwellers.