WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
SECOND INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
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The Great Stink
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Inadequate housing and sewage systems.
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Outbreaks of infectious diseases
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Agricultural advances
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Detailed explanation-1: -Urbanization can also lead to a number of economic problems, such as the decline of traditional industries, the rise of informal economies, and the increase in costs associated with infrastructure and services. It can also cause problems such as unemployment, underemployment, and inflation.
Detailed explanation-2: -Urbanisation resulted from the desire of many to find work or improve their wages. As more and more people moved to the towns, class consciousness developed rapidly amongst the ‘working class’. They gained in some ways-more food, better clothing, more goods to buy.
Detailed explanation-3: -Causes of Urbanization Economic, political, and social issues merge with circumstances of modernization to make people want to migrate from rural to urban areas.
Detailed explanation-4: -Noncommunicable diseases like heart disease, asthma, cancer and diabetes are made worse by unhealthy living and working conditions, inadequate green space, pollution such as noise, water and soil contamination, urban heat islands and a lack of space for walking, cycling and active living.