ROZAIN JAMALI
BBA 5-C
131199
Urbanisation in Karachi
Abstract
The megacity Karachi, as a globalized complex, is the business capital of Pakistan and had been the government capital until 1958. Karachi is confronting over the years with rapid growth of urbanization. The researchers, planners and administration need to identify and rectify the problem of urbanization prevailing since independence but more serious over the past two decades. This report analysis the trends of urbanisation in karachi, the role of katchi abadis and slums, Urban sprawl , serious impacts on the environment , social problems and the role of the state to fulfil the obligations which they owe to the public by successfully achieving the planned policies to eradicate the
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However, an ultimate consequence of urbanisation appears as an increase in population. There may be many reasons for the population explosion but the declining land productivity, rising expectations for higher wages, and a search for better living conditions are the prominent motivations for migration from less developed areas towards developed areas. In case of Pakistan census records show that the rate of urban population increase has risen from 17.7 percent in 1951 to 32.5 percent in 1998. Karachi, the most populated city of Pakistan has sufficient worth to be considered as a case study because of two reasons. Firstly, large spatial expansion and enormous increase in population in a short span of time, secondly, the bizarre appearance of Katchi Abadies (temporary settlements) and their amalgamation in the urban …show more content…
The reason apart from Influx of refugees from India is its essence to persuade people from all around the country to migrate to Karachi for better education, economic opportunities, living standard , health and safety and etc.
It is certainly considered as a serious problem, due to unrestricted movement within a country, certain areas or regions grow faster, mainly due to in- migration. Consequently, their population growth rates would be higher than the national average, while other areas experience a slow growth rate due to out-migration. In a developing country like Pakistan, such migration generally takes place for economic reasons, from the rural to the urban areas, resulting in higher growth rate in the latter Urban Population trends in Karachi(Historical data)
Information taken from the “Growing urbanisation: Shifting sands”
DR NOMAN AHMED
“Urban Slums” Arif Hasan
Arif Hasan gives an in depth analysis of urbanisation on karachi and gives the historical changes in karachi’s population in his case Karachi.
Year Population +/- over previous population survey
+/- percentage Average annual growth rate
1941 435,887 135,108 44.90 3.70
1951 1,137,667 701,780 161.00 11.50
1961 2,044,044 906,377 79.70 6.05
1972 3,606,746 1,562,702 76.50 5.00
1981 5,437,984 1,831,238 50.8
On March 25, 1911, a Saturday afternoon, all of the workers on the eighth floor finished work early, so they decided to lay back, talk, laugh, and just have fun. Some were even
As a result, by 1936 the population rose to 12,000. Causing the economy boom, the area is now known as the “World’s Richest Acre.” PRESENT
compared to 1946 when the price ranges for the average cost of a new house was $5,600.00 dollars The average salary per year was $2,500.00 dollars.
- “By 1917, the top federal income tax rate had been raised to 67 percent. Though it fell in the 1920s, it would rise again during the Great Depression and, especially, World War II. In 1940, before the United States entered the conflagration, the federal income tax raised $1.5 billion ($25 billion in today’s money). By 1945, it collected $17 billion ($223 billion). The top income tax rate would not fall below 70 percent again until
The total impact by the 20th century is about $15 billion.
As World War II was coming to a close, the United States went from a depression to a thriving economy. The war brought prosperity, and in the postwar period the United States became the world 's richest country. United States’ GDP jumped 223 percent between 1944 and 1947 from about $200 thousand million to $300 thousand million . As more and more Americans were becoming a part of the middle-class, the United States economy was growing. Economic growth had many affects on American life such as rising living standards, agricultural hardships, and a newly emerging American culture.
As it shows in document E, in about the year 1933 – 1936, the annual
Production per hour-worker increased over 75 percent over the decade, with the same amount of people producing almost twice as many goods. The 19th century lacked the prowess of machinery that the 20’s learned to harness, which led them to greater
Overall given these points Between the 1870 -1900 after the post civil war america’s corporations grew significantly in number and
The most accurate characterization for the time period of 1875-1900’s were both
33.385 million =10.235 million * exp (0.12*10) is the value of the of the population when the rate changes by an increase of 2%. 38.950 million =10.235 million * exp (0.14*10) is valuation of the future population when the rate increases by 4% from its original rate of 10% for a total rate of 14%. Each input is accurate in comparison with its Excel counterpart, however, the Word calculations will have greater precision due to the estimation of the of the Excel counterparts.
In the late 1800’s through the early 1900’s the U.S economy underwent an enormous increase in its industrial and production growth of its services. Copious resources and an expanding labor force from immigrant labor, government policy, and entrepreneurs facilitated a large shift in production of manufactured goods and services. The First industrial revolution shifted production from artisans to factories, and the second revolution gave way to the expansion in the organization, coordination, which helped push the large scale of the new industry. One of the first major factors was the immigration and the technological and transportation evolution across the U.S. As stated, “...more than 25 million immigrants came to the United States between
During the periods of 1865 through 1945, the United States went through a series of highs and lows. Almost like a teenager going through his or her first years of high school, this era was an emotional rollercoaster for most Americans. From the drastic improvement of technology innovation, to economic decrease; The United States never had stable good or bad era because of events such as The Second Industrial Revolution and The Great Depression. In the early 1870s, the United States began booming in economic growth; making the country a very promising time for Americans to start earnings wages.
Kingsley Davis, who is said to have pioneered the study of historical urban demography wrote his “The Urbanization of the Human population” in 1965. In his essay, he states that the history of the world is in fact the history of urbanization and then begins with description of how tiny European settlements grew slowly through the Middle Ages and the early modern period. According to him, urbanization occurred mainly because of rural-urban migration and not the other factors that people believe. He discusses how the production levels of this time period, due to the feudal system, used to favor an agrarian culture and then how the process of urbanization intensified during the 1900s, especially in Great Britain. He then clarifies the difference between urbanization, which he describes as the process of a society becoming more urban-focused, and the growth of cities i.e. the expansion of their boundaries.