Urbanization, Problems and Their Remedies
Urbanization,Problems and Their Remedies Urbanization,their problems and their remedies is part of UPSC MAINS syllabus in General studies paper 1.This includes history of urbanization,Standard definition,Role of Five year plans in urbanization,Major causes of urbanization,Problems of urbanization and their remedies.If you need a particular notes like this mail us at [email protected] URBANIZATION 1. History From the development of the earliest cities in Mesopotamia and Egypt until the 18th century, an equilibrium existed between the vast majority of the population who engaged in subsistence agriculture in a rural context, and small centres of populations in the towns where economic activity consisted primarily of trade at markets and manufactures on a small scale. Due to the primitive and relatively stagnant state of agriculture throughout this period the ratio of rural to urban population…