KAWA MULTIMEDIA PUBLICATIONS
Causes of Urbanization
i. The rapidly growing population world wide.
ii. There is provision of highly paying employment opportunities compared to rural areas.
iii. Urban areas offer better social services such as piped water, electricity, recreation grounds, housing facilities, cheap transport and security compared to rural areas.
iv. Improvements in transport which offers easy mobility from rural areas to towns.
v. The nature of western education which creates job seekers for “white collar jobs in towns.
vi. The political instability and insecurity in rural areas force people to settle in towns.
vii. Businessmen tend to invest in urban areas where the turnover is high with high profits.
ii. There is provision of highly paying employment opportunities compared to rural areas.
iii. Urban areas offer better social services such as piped water, electricity, recreation grounds, housing facilities, cheap transport and security compared to rural areas.
iv. Improvements in transport which offers easy mobility from rural areas to towns.
v. The nature of western education which creates job seekers for “white collar jobs in towns.
vi. The political instability and insecurity in rural areas force people to settle in towns.
vii. Businessmen tend to invest in urban areas where the turnover is high with high profits.