It is difficult to ignore the accelerating growth of urbanization. Urbanization has shaped developed countries during the 20th century, but it has had even more transformative effects on developing countries. Several factors distinguish urbanization in developing countries from urbanization in developed countries: (a) It occurs at an even quicker pace, (b) much larger numbers of populations are involved and (c) Urbanization and income growth are less closely connected than they were for developed countries.
By 2100, according to UN DESA in 2013, the share of the urban population is projected to reach around 9 billion, corresponding to close to 85% of the population. This period of rapid urbanization will also have experienced the rise of the
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According to UN Habitat and GIZ Cairo is considered one of the biggest city in Africa and the Arab world and it represents 22% of the country national GDP. Greater Cairo Region (GCR) is made up of three distinct sub-areas: Greater Cairo Proper (GCP) the main metropolitan agglomeration, Peri-Urban Greater Cairo and Greater Cairo’s Desert cities. The challenge for the Egyptian government and Cairo’s governors is to design appropriate institutional arrangements in order to implement policies that efficiently respond to the urban growth at the metropolitan scale. How to adapt and to plan for growing urbanization? How to respond to the fast and complex socio-spatial evolutions? How is the collaboration between spheres of governments taking place? How are involved the different actors from the public, private and civil sphere in order to foster coherent metropolitan …show more content…
As a result, my hard work and sincere devotion to the subjects earned me a rewarding place among the top students of University. I was offered a job as a Demonstrator in my Department, where I became able to continue my studies and gained my Master of Science in Urban Planning. I delivered a thesis titled “Cairo in the Context of Global Cities”. I found myself in deep contact with the problems of my dear city Cairo. Later on our revolution and the Arab spring aroused in January 2011. Being exposed to such events happening all around me and participating in it, I was pushed a head to find a way, a clear way, to be a useful citizen and to gain a helpful knowledge for my
During this period of industrialization, Canada began to shift from an agrarian country, to an urban one. The job opportunities, facilitated by the rapid industrialization, began to pull more people into cities. Accordingly, industrialization during this period also fueled rapid urban expansion. As much of this industrial grow was concentrated in the East, with the population of major centres like Toronto and Montreal growing at exponential rates during this period. These enhanced urban markets induced further economic development, as cities soon became home to large department stores, electricity, and leisure and recreation facilities.
Not only Americans but also people from European, Asian, and African also moved to the cities in order to seek opportunities in terms of jobs and affordable housing. The cities begin growing as a center of economy and financial, and also the number of population increased rapidly in the period of time. Several infrastructure projects and development in the West occurred to support people more
The Reconstruction period was accompanied by an acceleration of the industrialization and the urbanization. These processes were characterized by growing social problems: ethnical and social differences in the growing cities; large-scale corporations gain more political-economic influence; the rise of political corruption; small-scale entrepreneurs faced unequal competition because of the mass production of corporations and the formation of cartels; fewer attention for the social and economic
With the increasing population in cities, it created competition for jobs. People now had to compete with one another, as there were more people than there were
The cause that lead to the Progressive era was the Gilded Age. Industrialization during the Gilded Age is what lead to urbanization and new ideas in the Progressive era. The Progressive era was a period of social activism and political reform across the United States during the 1890s-1920s. During this period, the Progressive movement was focused on eliminating corruption within the government. It covered social reform issues relating to female suffrage, education, working conditions, unionization, urbanization, industrialization and child labor.
Also ethnicity and religion played a part of the urbanization. Between the Americans and Europeans moving into the cities places like New York and Philadelphia started to grow. This is the time when cities started to become more urban and by 1860 nearly twenty percent of Americans had grown to live in cities. This is also when many of them started to separate into different sections between the working class and the urban slums. Transportation also increased the violence in the cities.
As a result of this urbanization, crime numbers were starting to rise – for example, violence against immigrant
Interactions amid the provinces and the federal government, from constitutional issues to the most irresistible topics bang up-to-date in the country, are indemnified beneath the umbrella of “Federalism”. Authorities are shared so that on some matters, the state governments are decision-holders, whereas on the other matters, national government grasps the autonomy. In last twenty-five years, the upsurge of federal fiats on both governments, local and state, has shifted the power amongst state and national governments. Now, the national government is beginning to have more governance over the state’s engagements.
Social movement is not the task of a few persons, called to a specific purpose, but it is the responsibility of the whole community. They must learn the commitment to shared goals, consensus decision making, open and honest communication, shared leadership, climate of cooperation, and collaboration. Partnership and collaboration with others need sacrifices from both sides to be able to share vision, open up for communication, confrontation, etc. …, and most importantly, to sacrifice oneself in order to reach the vision or the plan that they have set out to achieve. For instance, the Indian Independence March, the Selma March, and the Sharpeville Massacre showed “self-sacrifice” of the protest through many deaths to gain independence (Howard).
Incorporating analysis’s from material provide in the Development and the City course at the University of Guelph, it is believed that a significant issues is the means to which governments invests in their people. Within cities, municipal governments are often more interested in modernizing than addressing the major structural concerns mentioned above. Furthermore, social inequalities do not just expand across cities, rather this is a problem that engulf the entire nation, which Boo also points to. This can especially be seen when
Introduction The novel as well as the short story proclaimed a literature of the oppressed that extended hope to those who have none. This can be seen in three key dimensions of the Palestinian novel. First, there is a beautification of the lost homeland of Palestine. Palestine is portrayed in literature as a paradise on earth.
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.
Introduction: Many revolutions can have things or events in common which are known as similarities, and the opposite which is differences. Thesis: The French revolution and the Arab Spring revolution in Tunisia began with people protesting for their political rights, and they also both caused economic instability. However, they were different because technology had a greater impact on the Tunisian revolution. Body paragraph 1: In the two revolutions, the French Revolution and Arab Spring revolution in Tunisia, political protests was the factor which they had in common.
All throughout history, occurrences of oppression and invasion have happened all around the world. The rights and freedom of innocent lives have been taken. The people with power have abused it and become tyrannical and self-centered. The innocent begin to rise against the malicious leaders trying to control their lives. Even through times of downfall and nonsuccess, humanity continues to fight back.
This project is taking place at Egypt’s National Research Center, which is located in central Cairo. It gives young researchers who have migrated the chance to return to the country and work in top-class facilities. The main criterion used when choosing among the candidates is that they should have PhDs from foreign universities. This research facility is attracting students to return back to Egypt after graduating. At the end of the recruitment process, 85 researchers under the age of 30 have been chosen to form several research groups to solve problems involved with the development of the country (Nordling, Linda).