{"id":200545,"date":"2022-08-18T18:10:59","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T12:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=200545"},"modified":"2022-08-18T18:10:59","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T12:40:59","slug":"urbanisations-different-strokes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/urbanisations-different-strokes\/","title":{"rendered":"Urbanisation’s different strokes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source:<\/strong> The post is based on an article \u201curbanization\u2019s different strokes\u201d<\/strong> published in the Business Standard on 18th<\/sup> August 2022.<\/p>\n

Syllabus: GS 1 – <\/strong>Urbanization, their problems, and their remedies.<\/p>\n

Relevance: <\/strong>Trends of Urbanization in the world<\/p>\n

News: Recently, <\/strong>the United Nations released the World Urbanisation Prospects: 2018 Revision.<\/p>\n

Trends of Urbanization<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Global Trend<\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the 1960s, Urbanization has grown from around 33% in the 1960s to 55% in 2020.<\/p>\n

Further, as per projections,\u00a0urbanization\u00a0is going to accelerate in the next few decades,<\/p>\n

The correlation between the transformation from a rural to an urban economy and an increase in the urban proportion is expected to increase in the coming period.<\/p>\n

Regional trajectories of urbanization<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Developed Countries<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1950, approx 64% of the population was living in urban areas in North America. In 2020, North America has become the most urbanised region, with 82% of its population living in urban areas.<\/p>\n

Other regions<\/strong><\/h5>\n

In the 1950s, around 17.5% and 14% of the population were living in Urban areas in Asia and Africa respectively.<\/p>\n

In 2020, Asia had an urbanization rate of 50% and Africa had an urbanization rate of 43%. Further, Central Asia has higher urbanization than any other Asian region (48%). Further, East Asia has a greater urban proportion (64.8%t). Moreover, in East Asia, more developed countries like China and Japan have higher urbanization rates.<\/p>\n

In South Asia, 16% of the population was living in urban areas in 1950. This was increased to about 36.6% (2020). Further, the Indian urbanization rate was more than the South Asian average.<\/p>\n

What are the reasons for variation in urbanization across the world?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The presence of sub-regional<\/strong> and inter-regional disparities<\/strong> exists due to different levels of development<\/strong> and industrialization<\/strong> in different countries.<\/p>\n

There are other reasons for the variations, which range from different rates of natural population growth<\/strong> in rural and urban areas, uneven rural-to-urban migration, international migration, and the growth of urban settlements.<\/p>\n

Administrative changes like reclassification<\/strong> or changing the definition of what constitutes an urban area also impact the level of urbanization in a country.<\/p>\n

Moreover, economic change<\/strong> and spatial planning<\/strong>, which includes housing, infrastructure, and service delivery, are strongly related to the extent and pace of urbanization as well as the underlying demographic dynamics.<\/p>\n

Importance of Urbanization<\/strong><\/h5>\n

According to the World Bank\u2019s feature on urban development, almost 80% of global gross domestic product (GDP) is being generated in cities<\/p>\n

Urbanization led to higher development, shared prosperity, and welfare, as well as a rise in formal employment and labor productivity in a country.<\/p>\n

What should be done?<\/strong><\/h5>\n

The urbanization trajectory of developing countries like China and Nigeria must be watched. These countries contribute at least 33% to the global urban population by 2050.<\/p>\n

To trigger urbanization, policymakers should focus on equipping our cities with infrastructure facilities to cater to the needs of a rising population. For this, the impetus should be to attract investment and opportunities in infrastructural development and a greater focus on ease of living for its people.<\/p>\n

There should be equitable development<\/strong> to avoid the concentration of population in only a few cities, and to narrow the rural-urban disparity and the disparity among cities and megacities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on an article \u201curbanization\u2019s different strokes\u201d published in the Business Standard on 18th August 2022. Syllabus: GS 1 – Urbanization, their problems, and their remedies. Relevance: Trends of Urbanization in the world News: Recently, the United Nations released the World Urbanisation Prospects: 2018 Revision. Trends of Urbanization Global Trend Since… Continue reading Urbanisation’s different strokes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10343,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[10503,263],"class_list":["post-200545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-business-standard","tag-gs-paper-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700778534,"cached_date":1704851962},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10343"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}