Introduction
Title: to what extend can the problems of urbanization be met by a policy of sustainable development?
Subtitle: challenges for sustainable development by rapid urbanisation in London.
As a global change, urbanisation has become very much mainstream and a certain trend of most countries in the world. At the end of 2008, the UN reported that almost half of the world’s population live in the urban areas. The world is urbanising. For instance, in the United States, 5% of the population live in urban [^], 50% by 1920 and eventually about 80% of the population live in the cities and suburbs today. In fact, urbanisation has two parts of meaning: the physical expansion of the urban areas and the movement of population from rural to urban also know n as urban migration. It is a complex process and as the result of many variables: economic, technological, environmental, political and demographic, it brings huge benefits to some aspects of a city. The organized communities become larger, more specialized and more interdependent, which can boost the economic growth, the industries and businesses will both develop rapidly in the trend of urbanisation.
Besides the benefits of urbanisation, however, it brings a lot of drawbacks and problems as well, mainly appeals[v] in overcrowd population, busy transport, pollution in water and land, workforce and unemployment, high stress and pressure. These drawbacks will do huge harm to both city and people and some can bring serious consequences. It can be taken as a challenge for sustainable development which is also a new trend coming up in 1970s. To find the causes of all the problems and possible solutions for them become a significant important issue in modern time. London, as the second largest economic centre in the world, has also carried out some policy of sustainable development. So in this essay, I will take London as a specific case to figure out the causes of problems of urbanisation, the potential risk and consequences, how the policy face the problems and other possible solutions for these problems.
Besides the benefits of urbanisation, however, it brings a lot of drawbacks and problems as well, mainly appeals[v] in overcrowd population, busy transport, pollution in water and land, workforce and unemployment, high stress and pressure. These drawbacks will do huge harm to both city and people and some can bring serious consequences. It can be taken as a challenge for sustainable development which is also a new trend coming up in 1970s. To find the causes of all the problems and possible solutions for them become a significant important issue in modern time. London, as the second largest economic centre in the world, has also carried out some policy of sustainable development. So in this essay, I will take London as a specific case to figure out the causes of problems of urbanisation, the potential risk and consequences, how the policy face the problems and other possible solutions for these problems.
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Rachel Ramsey 2006 The language of urbanization in John Stow's: survey of London
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