Urbanization in the Less Developed Countries wk 8

This chapter examines urbanization in the less developed countries in the global and historical context. Current trends and projections shows urban population increasing at twice the general population growth rate in the less developed countries.

The world's core regions, where urbanization was largely an outcome of economic growth, urbanization in peripheral regions has resulted from demographic growth that preceded economic development.

Colonization and the expansion of trade around the world allowed Europeans to influence thw world's economies and societies. A demorgraphic Transition in peripheeral regions -is a fairly recent trend that has generated large increases in population well in advance of any significant levels of industrialization or rural ecoomic deveopment.

What is “sprawl”? What causes it?