According to Wikipedia, Urbanization or also called urban drift is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. Urbanization is closely related to modernization and industrialization. And that brought us forth to recognize the great significance of the change during the urbanization stream of Great Britain in the 19th century.
This great change of the urban movement took importantly or dominantly in the process of the Industrial Revolution in the Victorian Era. The Industrial Revolution was the great cause of this movement, for it developed many new and advanced technologies that altered yet established new ways of building economy, which had easily effected and changed the people’s lifestyles. Due to this, many began to move and emigrate from the countrysides to the cities or even to the other side of the globe, for new life, or better jobs. However, for some different situations, some were forced or fled to another environments for their own safety, or benefit. That was what had put a huge stone, either fill with happiness or excruciating sorrow, on people’s lives in Great Britain during the 19th century; whether it was the invisible wave that pushed or pulled them into different worlds.
During the Industrial Revolution, many important and profound subjects have changed such as agricultural, manufacturing, the social culture and lifestyles, etc. With advanced technologies created, economy began to flourish with prosperous gains, incomes, but also distracted the lives of the poverty. For example, in England there are fabric industries, which were used for producing clothing once in the necessity of hiring loads of skilled labors are now replaced by unstoppable and powerful fabric machines and were beyond a mere match to the men. Therefore, as more machines are loaded and used in factories, fewer skilled labors are no longer needed and fewer workers are employed to operate the machines. The employers of the machines also receive low wages that were barely enough for survival, although the owners of the business are gained with loads of money due to fast production of products. So then people began to move to other environment that are well suited (if they are lucky enough) to them.
Back in the times, some people migrate to new places, away form their hometowns not only for in search of higher paid jobs but also for a new life, different societies or perhaps to experience new cultures. Urban areas was a big attraction that so appealing to many young men and women. Urban areas have not only better jobs but also a varied and appealing social life, and that was pull many youngsters who found life in a small community both oppressive and dull. For example, during19th century, London was a prosperous and a “magnet” that allured many people form all over Britain. Some left to sail across the Atlantic, to North America, Australia, and New Zealand, seeking new opportunities. For the younger generations of females
In the 19th century in Great Britain, many developed a distaste for "goin' to the field to farm" and those who farm were often looked down . So then most females traveled to a more populated area to search for respectable positions in middle class families or to engage into a more fashionable lifestyle.
A whole century—the 19th century- has passed, Great Britain has been flourished with the magnet city, London, that lead and gather thousands of people from different sides of the country of perhaps the globe to one big union. Building urbanization was creating cities; places people come for new hopes. Since the urbanization in Britain, many other places on the globe began to urbanize itself. In cities, people can create new things that are acceptable to many other beings, or innovations that can bring peace and happiness. Innovations such as great technologies, such as electricity, which made lives easy for humans around the world. Yet, a more flourishing economy, and have an ability to create international relation ships with other cities in the other countries. However, after cities were formed, many environmental issues popped up, such the world known global warming problem. Global warming was caused by pollution emitted from the overuse of electricity and technologies that can pollute the air and slowly crack the ozone layer. And then , with terrible environmental quality, it can affect health problems on humans. Even if the modern world, we are still in the process of urbanization, yet the goods and bads result from cities continue to grow, will urbanization ever stop?
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