Economics

Running Head : Urban Development

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Most urban areas in the world experienced a great growth in the 1970 (s during the industrial revolution . This happened when employment level increased in the urban centre at the industries absorbed the people . In this way there was concentration of economic and political power as the cities grow and increase its potential to create more opportunity for people . As the urban areas grew fast , there was a lot of rural urban migration as people seek and look for

better jobs in urban areas However , even though this urban areas and cities were growing fast people living in the cities were living poorly . This was caused by increasing wealth , inequalities , lack of popular participation fully of the government in the cities , problems of budgetary constraints unemployment caused by rural urban migration . Typically , the approaches implemented to sustain urban development had eventually been benefiting the minority as the majority of people in the urban areas languished in poverty despite the urban development . They lacked basic needs i .e . had poor quality housing , insecurity in place of residents , poor health standards , lack of enough food supply

The approaches used in urban development were aimed at concentration of economic and political power in the cities . This also involved centralizing industrial development in the cities . This is the long run had a good impact to the urban dwellers . As more industries were established in the cities , there were a lot of positive changes that were experienced . These changes included better , health services and facilities were available , more jobs opportunities in the cities , roads and infrastructure were improved , living standard of urban people was improved , etc . As the cities expanded there was also some effect even to the rural areas where marketing of produce from rural was improved as the

Population in the urban areas continued to increase especially due to urban- rural migration and hence in this way the development of cities increased at vast pace . All in all as the cities grew and more industrial plants were established , the pollution also increased due to poisonous gases and other effluents were going into the urban environment . Besides these issues of population , noise , insecurity and slums development , development of the cities is associated with many social , political , economic and environmental benefits which have made life of urban people better than in rural residents

According to Jacob (1961 ) some cities grew and developed from exchange She argues that animal husbandly and agriculture most likely came in the earliest urban settlements . She state that the origin of those urban settlement , were as a result of trade . For instance Jacob explains the development of a city called New Obsidian . This city camp up from a tribe that was living close to a volcano . There was later a great deal of trade of obsidian which brought a lot of benefits

Due to obsidian 's presence , which was a valuable material to a stone agriculture of that era , the tribe was...