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Poor air and water quality, insufficient water availability, waste-disposal problems, and high energy consumption are exacerbated by the increasing population density...
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- Overcrowding or Overpopulation. Overcrowding is a situation where a lot of people accumulate in a rather limited space that is unable to accommodate them without succumbing to the pressures around it properly.
- Unemployment. Unemployment is another urbanization problem. What is surprising is that a large percentage of unemployed young people belong to well-raised and educated families.
- Housing Problems. Housing problems tend to develop when people move to cities, and they become overcrowded in them. Most of these cities don’t have enough housing to accommodate the overwhelming numbers of incoming persons.
- Development of Slums. Urbanization and industrialization make many people move to urban areas, but they do not prepare them for the conditions they will likely face when they arrive there.
- Degraded Environmental Quality. At present, the most serious issue due to urbanization is degraded environmental conditions containing poor air and water quality, including land, noise, and other pollution, causing damages to the health of city dwellers.
- Overcrowding. Overcrowding occurs when too many people accommodate into a little space. It is a consistent problem of urbanization as a large number of people keep on moving from undeveloped areas to live in cities.
- Housing Problems. The housing problems arise due to the increase in the population of cities. The overcrowding leads to scarcity of houses. The problem becomes serious with the invasion of unemployed, impoverished immigrants in large number from nearby areas in their search for a living place.
- Unemployment. More than half of unemployed youths live in metropolitan cities around the globe, and the percentage is even higher among educated people.
Oct 23, 2020 · Introduction. According to the latest report from the United Nations (UN), the global population in 2018 was 7.6 billion and the urban population was 4.2 billion 1. By 2050, the global population...
- Liqun Sun, Ji Chen, Qinglan Li, Dian Huang
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• Globally, more people live in urban areas than in rural areas, with 55 per cent of the world’s population residing in urban areas in 2018. In 1950, 30 per cent of the world’s population was urban, and by 2050, 68 per cent of the world’s population is projected to be urban. • Today, the most urbanized regions include
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Urban planning, transport systems, water, sanitation, waste management, disaster risk reduction, access to information, education and capacity-building are all relevant issues to sustainable...
Jan 6, 2021 · Cities in the low-income and lower-middle-income countries had the highest urban population growth on average, but were substantially lagging behind in BUA expansion and infrastructure...
