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Sushmita Choudhury Sen
Assistant Professor, XITE

Impact of Urbanization
Introduction Xavier Chimes

The current global trend knows a massive expansion of urban areas, this growth being actually
generated by the numerical population growth and migration. Urban development determines
changes regarding the organization of places, economic and social changes but these eects
exceed the territorial barriers and generate a broad impact.

Urbanization is seen as an eect of the current globalization phenomenon, with social aspects as
well as the economic ones, representing the migration process of the population organizing in
urban areas, areas considered to be true centers of
progress that oer multiple options to residents.
Cities are centers of changes, placed in a
relationship of interdependence with demographic
growth and economic growth.
Substantial expansion of urban areas is due
population migration to these areas, the
identification of new feature options that can
ensure the raising of welfare levels of individuals
and improve their conditions of life. Emphasis on
the process of urbanization intensify pressure on
resources, environment and its ecosystems.

Urbanization and its eects
Figure 1. Global population evolution
In this moment, we are facing for the first time in the
history of mankind a change in the numerical proportion of population, the share of global urban
population overcomes the rural population as a result of the recent statistics realized by specialists:
• 60% of the global population will live in urban areas until 2030, considering that the urban
population in 1930 was 30% of the total global population
• 3.3 billion people live today in urban space
• daily approximately 180,000 people move in urban areas

60 million people from undeveloped countries move annually into urban spaces (urbanization has a
magnitude much more pronounced than in developed countries).

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Source: Urban agriculture and the extending
process of urbanization, PhD Student
M.d.lina DOCIU, PhD Student Anca
DUNARINTU
To adjust this intense global urbanization is
required to adopt the measures and Figure 2. Urban transition

Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, 15 Volume-VII, 2019
without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change. - Paul Young