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    Urbanization is the process of populations becoming increasingly concentrated in urban areas and cities. It involves economic and demographic shifts as non-agricultural activities and industries become dominant, birth rates fall and death rates rise, and more people migrate to cities. Urbanization spreads urban characteristics beyond city boundaries through economic and social changes. However, urbanization takes different forms in different places and progresses at varying rates, with more dispersed patterns in developed countries and more concentrated urbanization in developing nations. The rate of urbanization depends on a country or region's economic development level but also shows spatial variation, with most developed areas over 75% urban and some developing areas under 25% urban. Urbanization brings both costs like pollution and benefits like improved standards

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    Urbanization is the process of populations becoming increasingly concentrated in urban areas and cities. It involves economic and demographic shifts as non-agricultural activities and industries become dominant, birth rates fall and death rates rise, and more people migrate to cities. Urbanization spreads urban characteristics beyond city boundaries through economic and social changes. However, urbanization takes different forms in different places and progresses at varying rates, with more dispersed patterns in developed countries and more concentrated urbanization in developing nations. The rate of urbanization depends on a country or region's economic development level but also shows spatial variation, with most developed areas over 75% urban and some developing areas under 25% urban. Urbanization brings both costs like pollution and benefits like improved standards

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    Urbanization is the process of populations becoming increasingly concentrated in urban areas and cities. It involves economic and demographic shifts as non-agricultural activities and industries become dominant, birth rates fall and death rates rise, and more people migrate to cities. Urbanization spreads urban characteristics beyond city boundaries through economic and social changes. However, urbanization takes different forms in different places and progresses at varying rates, with more dispersed patterns in developed countries and more concentrated urbanization in developing nations. The rate of urbanization depends on a country or region's economic development level but also shows spatial variation, with most developed areas over 75% urban and some developing areas under 25% urban. Urbanization brings both costs like pollution and benefits like improved standards

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    Urban growth

    Urbanization

     The process of becoming URBAN; a complex process of change affecting both people
    and places. Its main dimensions are: a progressive concentration of people and activities
    in TOWNS and CITIES, thereby increasing the general scale of urban SETTLEMENT; a
    change in the ECONOMY of a country or region, whereby non-agricultural activities
    become dominant; a change in the 'structural' characteristics of populations (e.g. lower
    BIRTH RATES, higher DEATH RATES, positive MIGRATION balances); a spread of
    URBANISM beyond the BUILT-UP AREAS of towns and cities, thereby inducing rural
    dilution] the transmission or diffusion of change (economic, social, technological) down
    the URBAN HIERARCHY and into RURAL areas.
    Urbanization

     Urbanization does not always take the same form, nor does it progress at the same rate
    everywhere . In MEDCS, urbanization has now reached the stage of being rather more
    dispersed, through the proliferation of towns and cities, through DECENTRALIZATION
    and through the spread of URBANISM beyond the built-up area . In LEDCS,
    urbanization tends to be more concentrated, with large rural-to-urban migration flows
    converging on a limited number of large cities
    Urbanization

     The rate of urbanization varies from place to place. Although the rate is broadly related to
    the speed and scale of economic DEVELOPMENT, suffice it to say that, in some of the
    most advanced MEDCs, the rate is beginning to slacken off . The degree of urbanization
    also shows marked spatial variations, with the MEDCs having more than three-quarters of
    their populations living in urban areas, while for some LEDCs the figure is less than one
    quarter.
     Urbanization brings both costs and benefits. On the cost or debit side, there are
    undesirable by-products such as poor housing, congestion, ENVIRONMENTAL
    POLLUTION and encroachment on agricultural land. On the other hand, for many
    people, urbanization brings material, social and economic progress, higher living
    standards, and the provision of diverse services (commercial, social, cultural) that
    contribute to the overall QUALITY OF LIFE.

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