INTRODUCTION Towns and cities act as a major centers of economic activity, political decision making and cultural creativity . But they are the seats of many of the most severe social and environmental problems generated by demographic and economic growth. The 20th century saw an unprecedented increase in the global scale of urbanization. URBANIZATION – DEFINITION Urbanization refers to the increasing number of people that live in urban areas It deals to physical growth of urban areas. Understanding of the city is fragmented along disciplinary lines. Thus, demographers see urbanization as a product of variable rates of births, deaths and migration that produce a demographic cycle, each stage of which is associated with different occupational structures. Economist, however, regard urbanization as a series of growth phases that give rise to an increase in specialization of activity. Here economies and diseconomies of scale , labor and service availability or external...
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