PO220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intensive Animal Farming, Food Security, Shanty Town
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Urban growth: a rise in the proportion of people living in urban as opposed to rural areas. The transition from a dispersed pattern of human settlement to one concentrated around cities and towns. Going from predominantly rural to cities and towns. By 2030 more people in the global south will live in urban centers than in rural areas; by 2059 two-thirds of its population will be urban. No good land opportunities because of problems of land distribution, more factory farms (industrialised farms) are taking over rather than family farms. As rural populations feel pressure from other populations, they feel that there are opportunities in an urban area that dont exist in rural areasjob opportunities, Turner and the turner model" - quote on ppt. When dwellers control the major decisions and are free to make their own contributions in the design, construction, or management of their housing, both the process and the environment produced stimulate individual and social well-****
