Urbanization and its effect on third world living conditions

Urbanization is the spreading of cities into less populated agricultural areas. Most people would not think that this is necessarily a problem. They would say that it is good that the "developing countries" were becoming more developed. With urbanization comes factories and more jobs, so the people can make more money and be happier. Right? The problem is that these people must sacrifice their traditional lifestyles, for this new "Urbanism"(the way of life, attitudes, values, and patterns of behavior fostered by urban settings Knox 234). A lot of these people don't choose this lifestyle- they are forced into it. Because there is a growing demand for natural resources in the core countries, the semi periphery and periphery countries (where many of the resources are) get exploited. The "civilized" world enters the other countries, buys land from the government and then forces the people who are on that land off of it.......

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Title: Urbanization In Third World Countries
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Approximate Pages: 6 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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