Drawbacks of Urbanization
- The increased urbanization requires a huge labour force, thus a large number of people move from rural to urban areas for this fulfilment of labor. But due to the high cost of land in the cities, this group of people starts living in temporary shelters and soon turning them into slums.
- Urbanization usually demands a highly skilled and educated workforce, and thus less educated and unskilled workers get exploited.
- Urbanization requires space, thus resulting in cutting down forest lands to turn them into residential, thus leading to deforestation and climate change.
- In overcrowded cities, there is a high risk of transmission of Communicable illnesses like typhoid, plague, diarrhoea, and dysentery. Also observed during the COVID-19 pandemic, urban regions were more vulnerable to the COVID.
- Accommodating a higher population in a lesser space leads to increased pollution from vehicles. Also, sewage management and improper disposal of waste turn out to be major problems in many urban regions.
- One of the major drawbacks of Urbanization is the fall in Agricultural employment. As people start moving towards Urban areas employment in the agricultural sector drops.
Urbanization: Cause and Effect
The world is advancing and society is getting modern; thus, many people are moving from rural areas to urban colonies. And thus urban regions such as cities and towns are expanding to accommodate more people and this process of expansion of cities and towns is called urbanization. However, urbanization comes with its pros and cons, and many factors contribute together towards urbanization. In its early times, few countries experienced urbanization, but at present, almost every country is stepping forward towards urbanization.