Essays on Urbanization

Urbanization is with no doubt an inevitable and major process after the industrial revolution in 18th century. Through the past centuries applying to both first and third world countries, not only have we witnessed expansions of countries, the gradual involvement of modern technology, but how...

This essay will examine urbanization in China by starting with a brief background of urbanization in Asia, specifically comparing it with Western countries. Then, it will focus on three specific issues – air pollution, public transit and “left-behind” children and elderly people – that have...

Health plays a major role in our everyday lives, and with poor health we tend to look for the main causes. From the health perspective, Americans and the Chinese are greatly affected because of the air, water, and soil pollution caused by the developing manufacturers....

After three decades of double-digit growth, slowdown due to a diminishing technological gap and a declining working age population has furnished a compelling need for the 18th third plenum this year. The Party’s so-called “383 Scheme” provides a potential roadmap for a much more open...

The urbanization process of Chinese megacities has witnessed a variety of forms and paces since the marketing and the commodification of housing in the 1980s. One of the most remarkable phenomena is the transformation of agricultural land into urban areas through the formation of urban...

Migration of population to the cities is increasing rapidly worldwide because the birth rate is increasing, rural people tend to move to city in search of better living conditions, due to conflicts and limited amount of resources in rural areas. Urban population has experienced a...

The urban modernisation narrative calls to replace the native urban poor with a new class of people who will uphold the world-city ambitions projected by Bangalore’s government. Indeed, India’s land dispossession and booming property investments are not occurring in its city centres, rather on the...

Cities are “spatial manifestations of broader social forces and struggles”, contained and shaped by their built environment. Industrial capitalist modernity has been the driving force behind city development, and the commodification of ‘place’ has resulted into cities being ‘converted into products to be sold in...

Something as complex as Ancient Rome’s urban form cannot easily be defined in such a short word count. The purpose of this assignment is to find the hidden answer to a conundrum which states that architecture arises from time as the result of an individual’s...

Urban farming as the name suggests is the new and modernized way of agriculture. It includes cultivating and distributing the farm produce within and outside the village area. It also includes horticulture, animal husbandry, and agroforestry. It is also termed as urban gardening and urban...