GK
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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What 20th century innovation led to a rapid increase in urban sprawl (urbanization)?
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Car
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Cell Phone
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Internet
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Airplane
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The development of the steam engine transformed this need, allowing businesses to locate their factories near urban centers. These factories encouraged more and more people to move to urban areas where jobs were plentiful, but hourly wages were often low and the work was routine and grindingly monotonous.
Detailed explanation-2: -The two causes of urbanisation are natural population increase and rural to urban migration. Urbanisation affects all sizes of settlements from small villages to towns to cities, leading up to the growth of mega-cities which have more than ten million people.
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