Cause Of Urbanization

Employment opportunity, prosperity and other factors are the main reason why people start to move to the cities. Nowadays, a half of the world population is already residing in urban areas. By 2050, two-third of the world’s population is expected to live in cities. Urbanization is a word for becoming a city. It also means people shifting from rural to urban areas. Urbanization happens in all over the place in the world, and it brings both positive and negative effects on societies. Urbanization has become a common feature of Indian society. Growth of Industries has contributed to the growth of cities. Urbanization rate in India starts to accelerate after obtaining its independence from the British. After the independence, India adopted a

First one is the industrial revolution. It is the transition to new manufacturing processes, including going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of water power, the increasing use of steam power, the development of machine tools, the rise of the factory system etc. People started to think that working in factories, industrial sector, is more interesting that working in farms, agricultural sector because the more industries increase, the more workers are required, so the growth of the industrial sector is equal to the more employment opportunities. People moved from countryside to small towns to get work in factories, which later made small towns become large

In the urban centers, the crime rate is higher than in the rural areas. Theft, cheating, Murder and the kinds of crime are common in the urban centers. Because of the high cost of living in the cities, it is quite difficult for lower income people to survive in the cities. As a result, some of them commit crime in order to earn the money to survive in the cities. Impersonal relation is the important issues of the urbanization in India. Urban centers are characterized by highly secondary relations. The concept of neighborhood and community life are almost absent in cities. Urban life is highly monotonous. This may have an adverse psychological effect on individuals. People are often self-centered and they have no concern for the fellow human beings. One of the significant social problems of the urbanization is stress. Urban life is characterized by stress, which may even strain family relations. In cities, the employment of women is almost inevitable to meet the increasing cost of living. The changing role of women in the family creates stress in the family, which may result in divorce or strained