Urbanization Today

Only in India 38000 people migrate from villages to cities everyday. This is going to be 140 million by 2020 and 700 million 2050. Urbanization in the world is driven by organic population growth, compounded by migration from villages. Explosive growth of cities through out the World in the last decade of twentieth Century has created a huge strain on the physical infrastructure of all the cities and suburbs. Power shortage, mismanagement of monsoon deluges, traffic system, population explosion, pollution, congestion, unemployment , poor housing and water supply,solid waste management and poor service delivery affects in varying degrees the life of people in all the cities.