Impacts and causes of urbanisation

Impacts of urbanisation

• Overcrowding can occur where too many people live in one area, leading to a shortage of houses and jobs.
• Increased traffic, pollution and waste can all occur as a result of too many people living in one area
• In LICs, squatter settlements can be erected (badly built, illegal settlements found in and around the city). An example is in Mumbai, India
• Squatter settlements are overcrowded, so disease spreads quickly
• The population in rural areas falls due to rural-urban migration.
• The squatter settlements have no drains, therefore flooding is more common
• Fewer taxes are collected in rural areas to pay…