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Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas", and the ways in which each society adapts to the change. It is predominantly the process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more people begin living and working in central areas. The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008. It is predicted that by 2050 about 64% of the developing world and 86% of the developed world will be urbanized. That is equivalent to approximately 3 billion urbanites by 2050, much of which will occur in Africa and Asia. Notably, the United Nations has also recently projected that nearly all global population growth from 2016 to 2030 will be absorbed by cities, about 1.1 billion new urbanites over the next 14 years.
Urbanization is relevant to a range of disciplines, including geography, sociology, economics, urban planning, and public health. The phenomenon has been closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and the sociological process of rationalization. Urbanization can be seen as a specific condition at a set time (e.g. the proportion of total population or area in cities or towns) or as an increase in that condition over time. So urbanization can be quantified either in terms of, say, the level of urban development relative to the overall population, or as the rate at which the urban proportion of the population is increasing. Urbanization creates enormous social, economic and environmental changes, which provide an opportunity for sustainability with the “potential to use resources more efficiently, to create more sustainable land use and to protect the biodiversity of natural ecosystems.”
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/urbanization-and-the-future-of-cities-vance-kite About 10,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers, aided by rudimentary agriculture, moved to semi-permanent villages and never looked back. With further developments came food surpluses, leading to commerce, specialization and, many years later with the Industrial Revolution, the modern city. Vance Kite plots our urban past and how we can expect future cities to adapt to our growing populations. Lesson by Vance Kite, animation by ATMG Studio.
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This map visualizes the history of urban settlements over 6,000 years. The data shown in the map comes from a Yale-led study published earlier this month in Scientific Data, which compiled the most comprehensive dataset on historical urban populations to date. The data has a number of limitations and is “far from comprehensive.” Certain parts of world are better represented than others, and some well known cities do not appear until centuries after they were founded. That said, it is the first global-scale collection of pre-1950 urban populations, and a good starting point for future research. http://metrocosm.com/history-of-cities/?ref=youtube
In which John Green teaches you about the massive immigration to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. Immigrants flocked to the US from all over the world in this time period. Millions of Europeans moved to the US where they drove the growth of cities and manned the rapid industrialization that was taking place. In the western US many, many Chinese immigrants arrived to work on the railroad and in mines. As is often the case in the United States, the people who already lived in the US reacted kind of badly to this flood of immigrants. Some legislators tried to stem the flow of new arrivals, with mixed success. Grover Cleveland vetoed a general ban on immigration, but the leadership at the time did manage to get together to pass and anti-Chinese immigration law. Im...
Read the Transcript: http://to.pbs.org/b6sR86 The capital of the South Asian country Bangladesh, Dhaka, has a population that is booming. However, it stands as one of the world's poorest mega-cities. This report comes from a GlobalPost series about the rise of mega-cities.
In China, the timeline of the massive migration of 250 million rural residents into cities by 2025 is so rapid and far-reaching, there are concerns that some people will be left behind. Read the story here: http://nyti.ms/1e2l4i3 Subscribe on YouTube: http://bit.ly/U8Ys7n NYT on Google Plus: http://bit.ly/WnAshF Watch more videos at: http://nytimes.com/video Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/nytvideo
In his most recent trip to Brazil, David Harvey talks about the urban protests dubbed "middle class revolts" that have been taking place all over the world, from São Paulo to Istanbul, against the backdrop of what he calls the "crisis of planetary urbanization". This lecture took place in Curitiba on November 18th 2014, during a series of talks entitled "The Political Economy Of Urbanization", marking the publishing of the second and final volume of his COMPANION TO MARX'S CAPITAL. This trip took him also to the cities of Brasília, Recife, Fortaleza and São Paulo. The lectures also celebrated the publishing of Boitempo's new edition of Volume II of Marx's Capital – the first edition revised and expanded according to the documents of the MEGA2 project. Recently, Boitempo's edition of Volum...
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Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://yazz.space/sabk/35/en/B006Y23OEM/info This is the ebook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography, Third Edition captures the changes in the nature and outcomes of urbanization processes for people, as well as the development of new ways of thinking about urban geography. Unraveling the interlocking processes of urbanization, Knox and Mccarthy present a vivid and meaningful explanation of constantly changing urban geographies and urban life. This framework supports the discussion of recent changes while addressing much of the traditional subject matter of urban geography. The books dynamic approach also all...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://yazz.space/sabk/35/en/B00M42PV24/info How do we include and represent all people in cities? As the world rapidly urbanizes, and climate change creates global winners and losers, understanding how to design cities that provide for all their citizens is of the utmost importance. Inclusive Urbanization attempts to not only provide meaningful, practical guidance to urban designers, managers, and local actors, but also create a definition of inclusion that incorporates strategies bigger than the welfare state, and tactics that bring local actors and the state into meaningful dialogue.written by a team of experienced academics, designers, and Ngo professionals, Inclusive Urbanization shows how urbanization policy and management can be used to make more in...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://yazz.space/sabk/35/en/B008I9YFYM/info In terms of raw numbers, the amount of world urban dwellers have increased four-fold, skyrocketing from 740 million in 1950 to almost 3.3 billion in 2007. This ongoing urbanization will continue to create major security challenges in most countries. Based on contributions from academics and practitioners from countries as diverse as Nigeria, Pakistan, Azerbaijan, and the Us, Urbanization, Policing, and Security: Global Perspectives highlights the crime and disorder problems associated with urbanization and demonstrates police and private security responses to those problems.examines responses to urban problemsthe book draws on the practical experiences of police officials and the academic insights of researchers...
Get your free audiobook or ebook: http://yazz.space/sabk/35/en/B00AE1M1PC/info The ability to function safely, healthily, and productively in urban places is a continuing challenge for people everywhere. This challenge is exacerbated when the resources available to people in urban places happen to be severely limited or their ability to make decisions consistent with their welfare severely constrained. Nevertheless, Africans have manifested great inventiveness and resourcefulness both in contributing to, and in adapting to, urbanization. Africa's Legacies of Urbanization is the culmination of several decades of research, travel, and teaching. Goodwin provides an interdisciplinary and up-to-date look at African cities and the urbanization process. This thought provoking and engaging work ta...
Berlin’s Tegel airport shuts down once BER opens. The state of Berlin commissioned Tegel Projekt GmbH with developing and realizing The Urban Tech Republic: an innovation park for the city of the future. Der Flughafen Tegel wird geschlossen. Die Tegel Projekt GmbH entwickelt für das Land Berlin einen Forschungs- und Industriepark – für die Stadt der Zukunft. Hier treffen Gründer, Studierende, Investoren, Industrielle und Wissenschaftler zusammen, um gemeinsam die Städte von morgen zu entwickeln.
(Visit: http://www.uctv.tv) Political theorist Fonna Forman and architect-urbanist Teddy Cruz explore the idea of human happiness as it manifests in patterns of urbanization, from the public architecture of the ancient polis to the modern suburban sprawl of the San Diego-Tijuana region. Cruz and Forman are co-directors of the Blum Cross-Border Initiative at UC San Diego and leaders of the new Civic Innovation Lab for the City of San Diego. Series: "The Good Life" [4/2014] [Humanities] [Show ID: 25953]
Dr. Fareed Zakaria, Editor, TIME Magazine, speaks about the intersection of globalization and urbanization
In this lecture on urban geography, Dr. Manishika explains the causes, problems and solutions of urbanization along with spheres of influence and satellite towns. IAS Mains Geography optional postal course visit - http://www.examrace.com/IAS/IAS-FlexiPrep-Program/Postal-Courses/Examrace-IAS-Geography-Series.htm For Maps and locations books click here - http://www.examrace.com/IAS/IAS-FlexiPrep-Program/Postal-Courses/Examrace-IAS-Geography-Maps-Series.htm CBSE NET Geography optional postal course visit - http://www.examrace.com/CBSE-UGC-NET/CBSE-UGC-NET-FlexiPrep-Program/Postal-Courses/Examrace-CBSE-UGC-NET-Geography-Series.htm Lectures organised in topics and subtopics: https://www.doorsteptutor.com/Exams/IAS/Mains/Optional/Geography/
Pakistan's future will largely be written in its cities. Today about a third of Pakistan's population is urban-based, but that figure is expected to increase to nearly 50 percent within a dozen years. Recent data shows that Karachi's population grew by 80 percent between 2000 and 2010—the largest such increase of any city in the world. Pakistan's accelerating urbanization presents huge challenges but simultaneously offers the country a way out of its present multiple dilemmas. The goal of this conference is to generate new ideas and methods—those that go beyond calls for more public funding—for dealing with a phenomenon that is already well in place and is not going to be halted.
Panel Discussion: Rizwan Khaliq Director, Marketing and Communications, IBM Global Public Sector and Smarter Cities Ian Laski President, Asia Pacific, Bechtel Samuel Tumiwa Deputy Representative, North American Regional Office, Asian Development Bank Moderated by: Daniel F. Runde William A. Schreyer Chair in Global Analysis and Director, Project on Prosperity and Development, CSIS Follow @CSIS and @CSIS_PPD for live updates. #CSISLive Rapid urbanization in Asia has created an unprecedented challenge for the development community. From 2000 to 2010, nearly 200 million people moved into East Asian cities, according to the World Bank. Through this panel discussion, we hope to determine ways in which urbanization can become a driver of development and stability, through targeted investmen...
Edward Glaeser, Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, spoke with Paul Romer, Director of NYU's Marron Institute of Urban Management and Professor of Economics, in a public presentation on April 22. During the conversation, they discussed the challenges and realities of rapid urban development in the low and middle income countries. They also discussed the reasons why today's rapidly urbanizing countries are becoming urban at levels of income that are substantially lower than the historical levels of income at which high-income countries urbanized. The two professors examined the challenges of providing public services in fast growing cities characterized by limited government capacity. They considered some possibilities for increasing governmental capacity,...
Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE) & Indian Association of Social Science Institutions (IASSI) jointly organized a "National Conference on Urbanization in India: Emerging Issues" during 10-11 December 2015 at IPE, Hyderabad
Speaker(s): Professor David Harvey Recorded on 10 May 2012 in Old Theatre, Old Building. Given the strong relationship between urbanization and capital accumulation, and the consequent urban roots of both past and present fiscal crises, it follows that the city is a key arena within which class forces clash. The sharpening of these clashes transforms movements for the right to the city into urban uprisings and revolutionary movements. This then poses the key question of how to mobilize and organize a whole city around a movement for revolutionary change. David Harvey is Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His most recent books include A Companion to Marx's Capital; The Enigma of...