URBANIZATION

NEW YORK LONDON

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DUBAI
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MANILA
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JAKARTA
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Marvince Araneta, Ronald Carreon, Danielle Delos Santos, Gem Hojilla, Marc Perocho
 What Is
Urbanization?
Urbanization?
- Population shift from rural
areas to urban areas

- Gradual increase in the

proportion of people living in
urban areas or the ways in
which each society adapts to
this change.
What is the real - 2/3 of the world’s
population will be in highly

Urbanization? metropolitan areas

-In urbanized centers like

London, healthcare budgets
become a problem due to rise
immigrant influx
-In emergent developing
centers like Manila, immigrants
are forced to stay in vulnerable
housing infrastructures
 Trivia # 1
Highly urbanized countries
in Middle East are mostly at
low-risk for disasters.
Urbanization & Susceptibility
 Urbanization and Social susceptibility in
Marginalized sectors

• Marginalized urban • Majority of the population in

residents like labor migrants developing countries have
are usually forced to live in restricted access to social
highly-susceptible locations. goods and services.

• Urbanization leads people to • Demographic aging in urban

have increased dependence lifestyles are usually associated
on social infrastructures for with the isolation of the elderly to
their basic necessities. social networks, increasing their
social susceptibility.
 Haiti experience a 7.0

Haiti
magnitude earthquake during
2010’s. Reconstruction was
made to be quake proof and
barrier free.
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 Trivia # 2
Philippines belong to country
group 8 having a rate of
urbanization at 51.2%
 Urbanization and Coping
Capacities
• Furthermore, the
• In principle, the high • Cities with large urban potential for
density of numbers of boosting economic
infrastructures allows people, have growth can be
for an efficient access to central translated directly
implementation and into the enhancement
operation of disaster
protective measures management of individual and
facilities. public coping
capacities in cities.
• The rapid urbanization • At the same time, small
pressure often leads to towns and medium-sized
urban growth rates that cities, equally experiencing
exceed the capacity of rapid growth, often lack
government authorities technical staff with
to develop and operate distinctive urban expertise
urban infrastructure. altogether.
 Urbanization and Adapting
Capacities

• Shortages in these
• Urbanization factors can be • whether urbanization
implies a duality of observed in developing will be paralleled by
challenges and countries and economic stagnation,
opportunities with emerging economies. truncating the urban
respect to its key However, many potential for
adaptive capacity strongly exposed cities development and
factors muster high levels of adaptation.
capital, innovation and
political attention.
 • In highly developed
How does countries, basic services turn
urbanization to priced-commodities
trickle down in • In developing countries, high-
different quality services turn to down-
layers? grade low class services

• Urbanization is seen in the

What does lens of economist, capitalist.
urbanization
• Urbanization ceases to
entails? become sustainable.