Today, the population of the world is more than 7 billion and more than half of it is living in cities and defined urban areas. This ever increasing population has altered and modified most of Earth’s land surfaces. The processes of urbanization and urban development together with technologies have brought about change in the land use and lands cover both at global and regional scale in due course of time.
Pakistan is by no means an exception and all the major cities of the country are experiencing the change. Lahore is the capital of the province Punjab and is the second largest city in terms of population in the country. Since this City is historical one and has undergone a remarkable expansion, growth and developmental activities such as buildings, road construction, and loss of prime agricultural fields as well as many other anthropogenic activities since 1970’s .This situation is like many other provincial capitals of the country, such as Karachi, Peshawar and Quetta as well as many developing cities of the country.( Temporal Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Changes in Lahore-Pakistan S. A. Shirazi ,Pakistan Vision Vol. 13 No. 1 )
The first few years after the Independence in 1947, in spite of a large influx of migrants from East Punjab (India) and a significant increase in the population, Lahore did not experience much of urban development. This was perhaps, owing to the unsettled conditions, but during the last 20 to 30 years a steady spatial growth of the city
For example in the Islamic Caliphate cities such as Mecca and Baghdad became very religious and learning centers of the empire grew. The growth of the empire brought people to its cities for religious purposes and for better education. This changed the urban development in the cities . This is because, as the Islamic Caliphate grew, more people went to the important cities in the empire. Mecca and Baghdad became much more popular.
Los Angeles is the one of the most populous cities in the United States of America. Los Angeles takes less than two hundred years to achieve the current level of development. For a development, the city needs various factors, however, without psychological-social perspective, all those physical factors can be categorized into three: geographical resources, populations, and healthy economy. To develop a city, the city requires money. To gain money, the city needs higher population.
John Stuart Mill (1801-1856) was the British philosopher, political theorist and economist whose works have influenced the social and political context significantly. He has been one of the prominent thinkers on liberal philosophy and is still regarded as a distinguished identity within the liberal school of thought. His ideas have given a new dimension to the already established by his predecessors like Jeremy Bentham’s utilitarianism. His prominent works include, On Liberty, Representative Government, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Utilitarianism, Three essays on Religion, The Subjection of Women and his Autobiography.
As a result of this urbanization, crime numbers were starting to rise – for example, violence against immigrant
The Islamic Golden Age through the 9th and 12th century consisted of advancements that helped better the life of many people. The fields of scholarship, literature, and architecture flourished in the Golden Age. People were living the life they had dreamed about and the economy was perfectly stable. There were not many hardships that the people of this time had to face due to the daily routines of the Islamic people.
In the article Negative Effects of Urban Sprawl, they explain how we are getting rid of and destroying farms to creating new highways, fringe industrial parks and sprawled housing developments (Negative Effects of Urban
Many facts encourage people to locate in the suburban areas: 1- The well-developed transportation system: As an example of the transportation system development ‘’ highway’’. Highways increase the accessibility of regions and land as the result lands price increase. Some studies were done to prove that land increase in region that was previously less accessible but the land price decrease in region that was already accessible.
The analysis has proved beyond reasonable doubt that land use elements act as a catalyst for orderly and efficient distribution of land resources, concerns that will eventually improve residents’ quality of life. For these reasons, it is imperative that all cities have a proper general plan with a clear land use
8. Urbanization: • Urban population: 99% of total population (2016 est.) • Rate of urbanization: 3.0% annual rate of change (2015 est.) • Major cities – population: DOHA (capital) 344,939 (2016) 9. Sex ratio: • At birth: 1.02 male(s) / female • 0-14 years: 1.03 male(s) / female • 15-24 years: 2.75 male(s) / female • 25-54 years: 4.8 male(s) / female • 55-64 years: 3.37 male(s) / female • 65 years and over: 1.5 male(s) / female • Total population: 3.29 male(s) / female (2014 est.)
I chose this topic because in the past few decades, a lot of natural calamities and phenomena have taken place, e.g.: untimely floods, global warming, habitat loss, etc. And many of these have been caused by urbanization and one of the biggest threats that it poses i.e. the loss of ecosystems. Both urbanization and ecosystem loss disturb the natural balance of planet Earth. Therefore, it motivated me to take this topic. “Urbanization is when towns and cities are formed and become larger as more people move in from rural areas to work and live.
Name ____________________________ Ancient India and China Cover Work Montes(9-1 and 9-2) Early Civilizations of India and Pakistan : Edusystem and Edline Power Points 1. What did archaeologists digging in the Indus River valley of Pakistan discover in the early 1900s? They unearthed bricks, small clay seals, figurines, and other artifacts dissimilar in style to any they had seen before. 2. Define subcontinent: A large landmass that juts out from a continent.
It has come to my attention that urbanization tends to take place mainly on farmlands, in 2010, statistics were released showing that America loses an acre of farmland every minute and that the U.S. has lost more than 6 million acres of farmland since 1997. We not only lose an acre every minute, but the loss suffered by farmers and wildlife. Urban sprawl is the toughest problem we face, we lose some of the best fruit farms the country has by replacing them with large houses, parking lots, highways, stores, and malls. When you look around you don 't see very many farmlands which is hard to think that we will have enough land to grow our food in the future with growth of population comes more people and more people comes the need for more housing, which causes cities, and towns to constantly expand. The fact that we lose an acre of land every minute makes it hard to feed a large population, while urban sprawl increases population it also decrease the amount of food like fresh supply, and local foods.
The percentage of urban area carries a positive sign in the local security and urban infrastructure and a negative sign in all other categories; it is significant only in the administration spending. Continuing, the CV does not seem to be a good measure of urban sprawl, its estimated parameters are insignificant in all the equations; in addition, its sign is negative in most estimation, the opposite of expected. On the other hand, the GI does a better job of capturing the urban sprawl effects, the estimated parameters for aggregate spending and spending on administration and environmental management are large and significant, additionally, it has a negative sign in the aggregate and administration spending, and a positive sign in the environmental management; in other expenditure categories, the estimated parameters are large, but not statistically significant. The estimated parameters for the dummy for medium concentrations show that the GI is not a determinant factor of the spending on administration and environmental management for cities of medium urban concentrations, suggesting that the effects presented by the GI are related to cities of high urban concentrations; however, the estimated parameter for the aggregate spending and spending on social assistance are positive and statistically significant. Lastly, urban population density has a positive and highly significant coefficient
There is a positive relationship between urbanization and education school enrolment at both primary and secondary level increases with urbanization. While enrolment in primary schools is less than 50% in regions with an urban population share less than 20%,
The new place not only lacks such avenues for meaningful employment, it also lacks most civic amenities” URBAN AREA is that place where the density of human population is higher and the human-built features are vast in number when compared to its surroundings. Cities, towns etc comes under the urban areas. Urban areas are created and developed through the process of urbanization. According the census of India 2011, the urban area is defined as: • The places which are well facilitated; like having municipal facilities, corporational facilities, cantonment board or notified town area committee, etc.