Lift Conference. Art & Design. Art & Design. Web & Media. UrbanFabric. Institute for the Future. Online Portfolios on the Behance Network. SpaceCollective. The Creators Project Gallery :: Gallery. The NonProfit Blogs. Urbanization. Global urbanization map showing the percentage of urbanization per country Guangzhou, a city of 12 million people, is one of the 8 adjacent metropolises located in the largest single agglomeration on earth, ringing the Pearl River Delta of China. Urbanization (or urbanisation) is the increasing number of people that live in urban areas.
It predominantly results in the physical growth of urban areas, be it horizontal or vertical. The United Nations projected that half of the world's population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008.[1] By 2050 it is predicted that 64.1% and 85.9% of the developing and developed world respectively will be urbanized.[2] Urbanization is not merely a modern phenomenon, but a rapid and historic transformation of human social roots on a global scale, whereby predominantly rural culture is being rapidly replaced by predominantly urban culture. History[edit] Historical shift of the urban/rural population ratio.[4] Movement[edit] Causes[edit] UrbanOrganization - home. GaWC - Research Network.
Created in the Geography Department at Loughborough University, this network focuses upon research into the external relations of world cities. Although the world/global city literature is premised upon the existence of world-wide transactions, most of the research effort has gone into studying the internal structures of individual cities and comparative analyses of the same. Relations between cities have been neglected by world cities researchers; the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network has been formed to aid in rectifying this situation. Today the network operates as the leading thinktank on cities in globalization and has diversified into related subjects where concern for inter-city relations intersects with research on issues concerning, for instance, international business, sustainability, urban policy, and logistics.
The GaWC network for producing and disseminating knowledge of cities in globalization operates at several levels: Basurama. Global Metropolitan Studies. Space Syntax Network. Zuloark News! Think Commons | Ambient Intelligence Network. Inteligencias Colectivas 2.0.