Why are People Moving to Cities? Crash Course Geography #45

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Why are People Moving to Cities? Crash Course Geography #45


According to the UN, people living in urban places now outnumber those in rural areas — which is a pretty new phenomenon for many parts of the world. So today, we’re going to discuss factors that have led to this shift in populations from rural to urban residences (known as urbanization), and we’ll examine the historical and structural…

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  1. Im from Buenos Aires argentina. And i often think of this kind of population distribution like a real problem for the country economy. Argentina its a really big country but everything its concentrate in Buenos Aires. I bealive that this must change but i have beber hear a polititian even speak of this.

  2. you only need to look at the ratio of land to jobs to know that cities employ exponentially more people than farms. There is approximately 1 farm job per 275 acres of cropland in Canada, according to Statistics Canada.

  3. 10:24 As a Chinese person, this reminds me that most of Chinese territory used to belong to the ancestors of people we now call "ethnic minorities", and the land was taken from them by the Chinese empire over thousands of years. I feel ashamed that we do not celebrate their heritage enough, while treating ourselves as rightful owners of this land.

  4. I'll give you the answer: there's more job availability, less discrimination than in a small town, more ACTIVITIES to partake in so you don't get as depressed, jobs usually pay you more, and small towns with close minded people really suck the life out of you.