How does urbanization help or not help the earth?

Urbanization can help the earth by providing more housing in smaller areas to the increasing population. There are many benefits for urbanization, some of those being:

* Efficiency- more efficient use of land, less land use per person and housing is more efficiently used to house more people. * Concentration of resources-people come up with more ideas and resources are readily available. A larger variety of resources are found in urban areas. * Public transportation is easily found, cutting down the need for private transportation-which in turn cuts down on pollution

* Economy- jobs are more easily found than in rural areas With Urbanization, there is also disadvantages as well. Here we find problems that are not as common as in rural areas. * Areas where populations of extremely poor live in sub-standard conditions:

Poor Living conditions

High rates of Unemployment

High rates of Crime

Accelerated Population Growth -due to lack of education, family

planning (lack of education of family planning as well as tradition

of those coming from rural areas)

* Air pollution due to heavy vehicle traffic * Water pollution * Destruction of Natural Habitats * Urbanization spreads outwards thus chances of destroying more natural habitats.