USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Urbanization (or urbanisation) refers to the population shift from rural to urban areas, the corresponding decrease in the proportion of people living in rural areas, and the ways in which societies adapt to this change.

Detailed explanation-2: -Urbanization refers to the concentration of human populations into discrete areas. This concentration leads to the transformation of land for residential, commercial, industrial and transportation purposes. It can include densely populated centers, as well as their adjacent periurban or suburban fringes (see Figure 1).

Detailed explanation-3: -Internal movements from rural areas to urban areas is called urbanization or urban transition.

Detailed explanation-4: -Urbanization refers to the mass movement of populations from rural to urban settings and the consequent physical changes to urban settings.

Detailed explanation-5: -Counterurbanization, or deurbanization, is a demographic and social process whereby people move from urban areas to rural areas. It is, like suburbanization, inversely related to urbanization.