{"id":207875,"date":"2018-10-12T14:36:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/2018\/10\/12\/urbanization-in-development-societies\/"},"modified":"2019-04-18T17:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T16:39:45","slug":"urbanization-in-development-societies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/urbanization-in-development-societies\/","title":{"rendered":"Urbanization in Development Societies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
\nUrbanization
\nconstitutes a major phenomenon of developing societies      <\/span>or countries such as Nigeria (Mabogunje
\n1968). In some countries the process is not new, since it  <\/span>can be traced to the last millennium while in
\nothers the process becomes phenomenal as from the second world war in 1945
\n(Breese, 166). In Nigeria the growth of towns into urban centers can be traced
\nto the last millennium, urban rapid contact with the outside world resulting
\nfrom international commerce led to the development of such large settlement
\nsuch as Kano and Zaria (Onokerhoraye and Omuta,186) urbanization was also
\ngreatest among those groups which had development large centralized and complex
\npolitical system (Salau, 1979) prominent among these groups were the Fulani,
\nHausa and Kanuri (Bornu) in the Northern part and the Bini and Yoruba in the  <\/span>Southern part of the country. <\/span><\/div>\n

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\n<\/div>\n
\nHowever,
\nan urban hierarchy evolved in the North than in the South of Nigeria, before
\nBritish penetration (Salau,1979). Nigeria is the most urbanized country in the
\nTropical African (Breese, 1966). Other developing countries such as Asia have
\nalso been experiencing rapid rates of urban transformation, especially since
\n1945 Bob Walter (1976:97) states the over-urbanization, which refers to an ever
\nexpanding rate of urbanization is a characteristics feature of many developing
\ncountries. it is now an incontrovertible fact that the rate of growth of
\nurbanization is higher in the developed ones. Although the figure of population
\nof those of that live in the cities in higher in the developed countries
\n(Afolabi Ojo 1978:21) it has                                    <\/span> <\/span>been concluded that continuing rate of
\nurbanization in third world is inevitable. <\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nThe
\ninevitability for the continuing rate of urbanization in the third world  <\/span>in the future cannot be separated from high
\npopulation explosion, the growth of cities or more urban centers which maintained
\na state of steady and static equilibrium with their hinterland in pre-colonial
\ndays have since been transformed in many ways to make them assume the form of
\nrejuvenated cities along with two types of cities which have emerged since
\ncolonial times namely the colonial city and the rejuvenated traditional city
\n(Mabogunje 1968). the rejuvenated traditional and the colonial cities have
\nattracted the inhabitants of their peripheries.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nIndustrialization
\nhave also been a cause of urbanization in developing countries urbanization and
\nindustrialization have been in inseparable partners in the process of
\nurbanization of most third world country, a process that has been poising a lot
\nof problems for their countries. The location of industrial project and
\ngovernmental institution is of critical importance to urban growth and
\ndevelopment. Most private industrial establishment choose the administrative
\ncenter as locations due to the presence of governmental institutions and a
\nhighly development infrastructure (Salau 1979; 202). <\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nAccording
\nto schstzl (1973) the trend toward increasing governmental interference in
\nprivate enterprises coupled with the efficient administration and communication
\ncharacteristics of developing nations seemed to favour a permanent directed
\ncontract with the public administration.<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nLack of
\nplanning of Urban cities and the lack of attempts to diversify the economy are
\nalso characteristics of urbanization in developing countries,  <\/span>a situation that had created social problems
\nthat are presently yearning for solutions. No urban renewal policy was
\nintroduced into Nigeria until the 1950\u2019s while attempt at town planning have
\nnot clearly formulated and implemented since 1945, an urban oriented policy was
\nintroduced in Nigeria in 1946 with the establishment of the Town Planning
\nAuthority by the Nigeria town and country planning ordinance (No 4 of 1964)
\nwhich was to provide for the re-planning, improvement and development of
\ndifferent parts of the country by means of planning schemes (Mobogunje, 1978
\np.11)<\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nHowever,
\nthe shortcoming of the ordinance of 1946 have constituted one of the greatest
\ndrawbacks to national urban development in Nigeria. A major drawback rising
\nfrom the ordinance has  <\/span>been the
\nrestriction of the activities of a planning authority simply to estate
\ndevelopment and building control (Mabogunje, 1965) this restriction has not
\nbeen conductive to an effective and  <\/span>efficient planning of the Burgeoning cities in
\nNigeria since the colonial period with regard to diversification of the economy,
\nurbanization in developing societies such as in African has not been
\naccompanied  <\/span>by attempt to alter the
\nurban\/rural  <\/span>economic relations with the overall
\naim of diversifying the economic base. According to Magubane (1979:31) there
\nwere few ties between one sector of the economy and another so that in any
\nsingle colony there could be no beneficial interaction between the various
\nsectors let alone organic development. According to him foreign investment is
\nincapable of solving Africa\u2019s under-development and skewed urbanization. <\/span><\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nIt should
\nbe quite obvious by now that intensely over-crowded cities in African are a
\ndirect result of anarchic and unplanned economic development and it internal
\nconsequence. The reason for this pattern of growth have attributed to
\ncolonialism and the attendant dominant capitalist mode of production. Colonialism
\nresulted in what castells refers to as dependent urbanism. According to him
\ndependent urbanism arsis as in situation while the urban form exists as a
\nchannel for the extraction of qualities of surplus from a rural and resources
\nhinterland for the purpose of shipment to the major metropolitan centers of
\ncolonial trade and administration, the African cities for example have draw in
\nthe surplus people and the uprooted labourers of the rural areas. This is a long
\nterm and continuing process intensified by rapid rises in general population
\n(Salau, 1979),<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Urbanization constitutes a major phenomenon of developing societies      or countries such as Nigeria (Mabogunje 1968). In some countries the process is not new, since it  can be traced to the last millennium while in others the process becomes phenomenal as from the second world war in 1945 (Breese, 166). In Nigeria the growth of towns…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[106],"class_list":["post-207875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dutable.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}