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Urbanization: Rural Urban Areas United Nations World's Population Developing World Developed World

Urbanization is the shift of populations from rural to urban areas and the adaptation of societies to this change. It results in physical growth of urban areas both horizontally and vertically. By 2050, it is predicted that 64% of the developing world and 86% of the developed world will be urbanized, with approximately 3 billion urbanites, many in Africa and Asia. Urbanization is relevant to multiple disciplines and has been closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and rationalization.

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Urbanization: Rural Urban Areas United Nations World's Population Developing World Developed World

Urbanization is the shift of populations from rural to urban areas and the adaptation of societies to this change. It results in physical growth of urban areas both horizontally and vertically. By 2050, it is predicted that 64% of the developing world and 86% of the developed world will be urbanized, with approximately 3 billion urbanites, many in Africa and Asia. Urbanization is relevant to multiple disciplines and has been closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and rationalization.

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Urbanization is a population shift from rural to urban areas, "the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban

areas", and the ways in which


each society adapts to the change. It predominantly results in the physical growth of urban areas, be it horizontal or vertical. The United Nations projected that half
of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008. It is predicted that by 2050 about 64% of the developing world and 86% of the developed
world will be urbanized. That is equivalent to approximately 3 billion urbanites by 2050, much of which will occur in Africa and Asia.

Urbanization is relevant to a range of disciplines, including geography, sociology, economics, urban planning, and public health. The phenomenon has been
closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and the sociological process of rationalization. Urbanization can be seen as a specific condition at a set time (e.g.
the proportion of total population or area in cities or towns) or as an increase in that condition over time. So urbanization can be quantified either in terms of, say,
the level of urban development relative to the overall population, or as the rate at which the urban proportion of the population is increasing. Urbanization creates
enormous social, economic and environmental changes, which provide an opportunity for sustainability with the potential to use resources more efficiently, to
create more sustainable land use and to protect the biodiversity of natural ecosystems.

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