Arch 162_Notes
Arch 162_Notes
URBANIZATION
1 URBANIZATION PROCESS
2 URBAN MODELS AND THEORIES
URBANIZATION
Urbanization
The process when large numbers of people became
permanently concrentrated in a relatively small area.
When people moves from rural to urban areas
Involves:
Population growth;
Population density increase;
Migration;
Emigration and Immigration; and
Natural increase due to a higher birth rates.
How urbanization leads to city formation?
Small groups inro settlements and towns.
Smaller towns into larger towns; larger towns into
cities
Growth of cities when more people live to work here
Cities expand, swallowing up neighboring areas to
become mega-cities