What is urbanization?

Urbanization is the process through which an increasing proportion of a population moves from rural areas to cities, and cities grow themselves. Apart from this, it involves changes in social and economic characteristics as well as cultural effects, and population density increases with a transformation in living, mainly from rural to urban.

With modernization and industrialization, urbanization usually occurs, leading to the diversification of population composition, the concentration of the economy, and a change in land-use pattern as well as social interaction.